From: erc@apple.com (Ed Carp) Subject: Re: shells that emulate the orginal /bin/sh Date: 9 Aug 1993 04:23:37 GMT
Patrick J. Volkerding (bf703@cleveland.Freenet.Edu) wrote:
: I found ash.tar-z on wuarchive.wustl.edu in /mirrors/unix-c/utils.
: Haven't been able to get it to port yet, though. I get the whole thing
: to compile (including the bltinlib.a) and then it dies trying to link
: builtins.o. If anyone has better luck, let me know...
I am 100% sure that in the early, heady days of .11 and .12, someone ported
ash to linux - but I can't remember who it was, nor can I find it on tsx-11
or sunsite.
There *is* something called 'sash', which is small and designed to run
standalone. It's on both tsx-11 and sunsite. It's 107K - but that's
linked statically, which will save a LOT of space on diskette. Linked non-
statically, it takes about 33K.
One of the nice things about sash is that it has a lot of builtin commands
like chgrp, chmod, chown, cmp, cp, dd, echo, ed, grep, kill, ln, ls, mkdir,
mknod, more, mount, mv, printenv, pwd, rm, rmdir, sync, tar, touch, and
umount.
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