Bash shell support?

walter harms wharms at bfs.de
Tue Aug 29 10:27:27 UTC 2006


I do not think that such a beast like a manual exists.
ntl it would be useful to write some.
You have a good starting point with all the test codes. :)
of cause i am willing to help.

re,
 wh




Riaz Rahaman wrote:
> thanks for the info,
> 
> The ash in the busybox doesn't support arrays, I am using RHEL3, in that I
> set my shell to to ash and run the same test case which works fine. I am
> trying to find the version of ash by saying ash --version which is not
> supported by ash.
> 
> If ash doesn't support arrays, then is there any other way that the arrays
> can be implemented in the script?
> 
> my /bin/sh is mapped to /bin/bash and /bin/ash isn't mapped to /bin/bash
> 
> linux at linux:~> ll /bin/sh
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 May 30 12:13 /bin/sh -> bash
> linux at linux:~> ll /bin/ash
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 114132 Apr 23 02:09 /bin/ash
> 
> I am trying to locate a ash manual which might have this info,I did a man
> ash but that it gave me a shell interpreter manual. If anyone has the soft
> copy of the ash manual, please forward it to me and if the file size is
> large, you can avoid sending to the group, since some folks might not like
> getting large files.
> 
> 
> 
>
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