At 07:39 2002-10-24, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
On my system, there "man ash" gives an extensive, detailed manual page on ASH. "Man sh" gives the same page:> > 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
% 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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