[ale] Shell

[David Corbin]

ash is part of debian, so you should be able to find a copy there...
----- Original Message -----
From: Ben Coleman <oloryn at mindspring.com>
To: ale at ale.org
To: <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2000 1:53 PM
Subject: Re: [ale] Shell


> On Wed, 27 Dec 2000 10:36:42 -0500, Chris Fowler wrote:
>
> >Can someone reccomend a very small shell?  I need something smaller than
> >bash that can use the same scripts.  Not complex scripts.  I'm trying to
fit
> >linux in a tight space and would love a shell that is less than 100K
> >compiled.  Bash 1.14 is 299K stripped.
>
> Well, there's ash.  That's the shell that's used on Slackware's
> installation disks.  The compiled ash in Slackware takes about 59K.
> It's Bourne-compatible, and suitable for scripting, but not so much for
> interactive use (no command history, for example).  I'm not sure,
> however, where to find it other than in Slackware, unless it's still in
> NetBSD (the version in Slackware was ported to Linux from NetBSD back
> in 1993).  The source ftp site for ash in the Slackware sources no
> longer exists.
>
> Ben
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