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RE: Ash manual/info. (was: Re: "==" operand not found)


At 07:39 2002-10-24, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > Randall R Schulz wrote:
> > >
> > > You're most likely accustomed on your Linux system to "/bin/sh"
> > > being BASH. On Cygwinm /bin/sh is ASH, and it is far more minimal
> > > in its implementation of the POSIX shell standard, and does not
> > > provide "==" as an equivalent for "=" in the "test" (a.k.a. "[")
> > > built-in.
> >
> > While there is an info file on bash, and even a man entry, there
> > seems to be nothing whatsoever about ash on the system.  If we are
> > not able to use the abilities of bash,

'man sh' should get you the ash manpage.
        Igor
On my system, there "man ash" gives an extensive, detailed manual page on ASH. "Man sh" gives the same page:

% ll /usr/man/man1/{ash,sh}.1
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administ None 37065 Jan 31 2002 /usr/man/man1/ash.1*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 Administ None 16 Jul 31 11:35 /usr/man/man1/sh.1 -> ash.1*


According to the package search page (<http://cygwin.com/packages/> -- which is dog slow, by the way), the "ash" package itself includes the "ash.1" manual page source file.

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


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