Almquist Shell: Difference between revisions

The '''Almquist Shell''', a.k.a. <tt>ash</tt> is a minimal implementation of an almost-[[POSIX]] shell, and also a replacement for [[compatible with::Bourne Shell]]. Almquist ShellAsh has more features than. the original Bourne Shell, but fewer features than most other shells.; (Nofor example, it lacks arrays!). AlmquistFor Shellthe most part, it only implements POSIX features, plusbut it does have a few traditional [[BSD]] traditionsadd-ons, likesuch as <code>local</code> variables in functions. Almquist ShellAsh is the default shell, <code>/bin/sh</code>, of some systems. It does not have any of the internationalization/localization or multi-byte character encoding support required by the POSIX standard, so it is not technically a POSIX-compliant shell, but since it lacks most non-POSIX features, it is helpful in validating that <tt>#!/bin/sh</tt> scripts are not dependent upon such features.