why dash (rather than bash)

[LoneStar]

I guess the title says it all ...
Why oh why is 'sh' a link to 'dash' rather than 'bash'??
I've never ever had a problem with bash - its the default shell for all (as far as I know) linux distros and I _always_ start my scripts with '#!/bin/sh' - not that even that helps, if you do a 'sh myscripts.sh' it will be 'dash', no matter what ...
Admittedly, its not that much of a difference, the most glaring one being "echo -e" in bash which prepends any string with '-e' in dash *sigh*

Can anyone give me a really good reason for using 'dash' (other than it wouldn't otherwise be used)?

[JasonLG]

I guess the title says it all ...
Why oh why is 'sh' a link to 'dash' rather than 'bash'??
I've never ever had a problem with bash - its the default shell for all (as far as I know) linux distros and I _always_ start my scripts with '#!/bin/sh' - not that even that helps, if you do a 'sh myscripts.sh' it will be 'dash', no matter what ...
Admittedly, its not that much of a difference, the most glaring one being "echo -e" in bash which prepends any string with '-e' in dash *sigh*

Can anyone give me a really good reason for using 'dash' (other than it wouldn't otherwise be used)?

From the package description of dash in synaptic...

"The Debian Almquist Shell (dash) is a POSIX-compliant shell derived
from ash.

Since it executes scripts faster than bash, and has fewer library
dependencies (making it more robust against software or hardware
failures), it is used as the default system shell on Debian systems."

[Gannet]

It might be worth looking at this - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh. I'm a newbie and only discovered about the differences this morning. I'm off to find a wooden leg to stick out of my window!

[var]

And with the ShellShock bug in Bash, it's actually nice to know that you're not affected.