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Date:      Thu, 11 Jan 2001 00:15:09 +0100 (CET)
From:      Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org>
Cc:        small@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sash as a shell replacement ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.20.0101110011360.61221-100000@mx.webgiro.com>
In-Reply-To: <200101102211.f0AMBBS48285@iguana.aciri.org>

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On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Luigi Rizzo wrote:

> hi,
> i have been trying to use "sash" as a replacement for "sh"
> and other utilities, but it seems problematic. Basically,
> sash does not handle things like
> 
> 	sh some_script_name [ arguments ]
> 
> nor can be invoked with a different name to implement one of
> the embedded commands. Does anyone else have a better experience,
> or can suggest some patches ?

sash has very poor shell functionality. I would suggest using Minix sh
which is very Bourne-like, and is also very small.

BTW. if someone has the time and inclination to make a couple of ports for
useful small Minix programs, I can provide the patches to make them run
under FreeBSD.

Andrzej Bialecki

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