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List:       leaf-devel
Subject:    Re: AW: [leaf-devel] The Debian Almquist Shell
From:       Lynn Avants <avants () guitarlynn ! homelinux ! org>
Date:       2003-06-24 18:32:35
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On Tuesday 24 June 2003 12:40 pm, Alex Rhomberg wrote:
> > It looks like ash isn't being supported by Debian anymore. They migrated
> > to dash. Has anyone taken a look at it, and what complications would we
> > encounter migrating to it?
>
> Aren't they all POSIX shells (ash, bash, dash)? They should use the exact
> same syntax and run the same scripts.

bash and ash definately have different behaviors running many of the same
scripts. I'll have to check out 'dash', it is smaller than 'ash' (even the 
DF/Bering version) and also supports many 'korn' functions as well.
-- 
~Lynn Avants
Linux Embedded Appliance Firewall Developer
http://leaf.sourceforge.net
http://guitarlynn.homelinux.org:81


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