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Shells:
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lash is the very smallest shell (adds just 10k) and it is quite usable as
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a command prompt, but it is not suitable for any but the most trivial
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scripting (such as an initrd that calls insmod a few times) since it does
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not understand Bourne shell grammer. It does handle pipes, redirects, and
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job control though. Adding in command editing makes it a very nice
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lightweight command prompt.
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hush is also quite small (just 18k) and it has very complete Bourne shell
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grammer. It handles if/then/else/fi just fine, but doesn't handle loops
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like for/do/done or case/esac and such. It also currently has a problem
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with job control. Using hush is not yet recommended.
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msh: The minix shell (adds just 30k) is quite complete and handles things
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like for/do/done, case/esac and all the things you expect a Bourne shell to
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do. It is not always pedantically correct about Bourne shell grammer (try
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running the shell testscript "tests/sh.testcases" on it and compare vs bash)
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but for most things it works quite well. It also uses only vfork, so it can
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be used on uClinux systems. This was only recently added, so there is still
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room to shrink it further...
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ash: This adds about 60k in the default configuration and is the most
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complete and most pedantically correct shell included with busybox. This
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shell was also recently added, and several people (mainly Vladimir and Erik)
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have been working on it. There are a number of configurable things at the
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top of ash.c as well, so check those out if you want to tweak things.
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Getting help:
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Getting help:
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When you find you need help, you can check out the BusyBox mailing list
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When you find you need help, you can check out the BusyBox mailing list
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