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Re: what's the best small shell for initrd?



On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 03:18:21AM -0700, David Schleef wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 08:57:02AM +0200, Thierry Laronde wrote:
> > 
> > But if one wants a great shell with historic, completion, `which' like
> > functionnality and so on, the best choice is Public Domain Korn Shell
> > `pdksh'.
> 
> Busybox hush has history, completion, and which.  (And isn't ksh. =) )
> 
> > pdksh, statically compiled against uClibc, with historic, completion and so
> > on is 178ko. This SHOULD be the system shell of a Debian system :-^
> 
> Busybox, statically compiled against uClibc, with hush, 260 k.

And it does scripting too (i.e. is POSIX compliant and allow the use of
scripts)?

-- 
Thierry LARONDE, Centre de Ressources Informatiques, Archamps - France
http://www.cri74.org/



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