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Software > Scripting Languages >

This is the "base language" for shell scripting under Linux.

This is generally known as "vanilla shell".

• Dash is very close to the vanilla shell, and is what I'm probably using.

• My scripts are hosted at https://github.com/spiralofhope/shell-random/tree/master/README.markdown

• Busybox has a minimal version.

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• Wicked Cool Shell Scripts, 2nd Edition

• A Shell Programming Primer

  • (For the archivists, it used to be hosted on vectorsite.net)
• Csh Programming Considered Harmful
• shc - Generic shell script compiler

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• 2016-04-03 - 4.2?, on Slackware 14.1

• 2016-03-26 - 0.5.7, on Lubuntu 14.04.4 LTS

2016-04-03 - 4.2? ∞

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On Slackware 14.1, /bin/sh is a symlink to bash

Running it, gives this prompt:

sh-4.2$

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There is also ash (Almquist shell), and I have no idea how to determine it's version. man ash is a BSD man page, and has, at it's footer, January 9, 1999.

2016-03-26 - 0.5.7 ∞

0.5.7-4ubuntu1

(notes to be added)

TODO ∞

Methods ∞

Procedures/whatever they're called

method(){
  \echo 'I do this'
}
method
method

Methods with a parameter ∞

TODO