$ man dash | wc -w 10122 If you are running scripts most of the time bash is overkill (batch files don't need things like command completion, history and all

$ man dash | wc -w 10122 If you are running scripts most of the time bash is overkill (batch files don't need things like command completion, history and all that interactive stuff). Don't believe me? $ ls -lAh `which bash` -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.1M Jun 6 2019 /bin/bash $ ls -lAh `which dash` -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 119K Jan 25 2018 /bin/dash