[ale] Shell

[Ben Coleman]

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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