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From: kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu (Steven G. Kargl)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ash
Date: 23 Apr 1997 23:38:40 GMT
Organization: University of Washington
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In article <Pine.SUN.3.95.970423142548.18619B-100000@garcia.efn.org>,
Eric James DeArment <ejd@efn.org> writes:
> I don't know if this is even the right place to be asking this question,
> but has anyone here ever heard of a shell called "ash?"
>
ash is the default sh (Bourne shell replacement?) on FreeBSD.
%cd sh
%pwd
/usr/src/bin/sh
%head -15 TOUR
# @(#)TOUR 8.1 (Berkeley) 5/31/93
# $Id: TOUR,v 1.5 1997/02/22 13:58:19 peter Exp $
NOTE -- This is the original TOUR paper distributed with ash and
does not represent the current state of the shell. It is provided anyway
since it provides helpful information for how the shell is structured,
but be warned that things have changed -- the current shell is
still under development.
================================================================
A Tour through Ash
Copyright 1989 by Kenneth Almquist.
--
Steve
finger kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu
http://troutmask.apl.washington.edu/~kargl/sgk.html