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

This is generally known as "the vanilla shell".

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

• My scripts are hosted in a git repository.

• Busybox has a minimal shell.

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• Wicked Cool Shell Scripts, 2nd Edition
• A Shell Programming Primer [ 1 ]
• Csh Programming Considered Harmful
• shc - Generic shell script compiler

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• I still use this regularly..
• 2016-04-03 - 4.2?, on Slackware 14.1

• 2016-03-26 - 0.5.7-4ubuntu1 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.

Notes ∞

• https://www.etalabs.net/sh_tricks.html

• How to detect remoteness

  • https://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/1996/msg00191.html
  • https://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/1996/msg00200.html

Last updated 2023-07-25 at 19:06:46

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