Almquist shell

The Almquist shell (ash) originally was Kenneth Almquist's clone of the SVR4-variant of the Bourne shell. Meanwhile it is a fast, small, POSIX-compatible Unix shell. By intention it did not feature line editing or history mechanisms originally, because such should move into the terminal driver. Current variants have emacs and vi modes added. ash is installed as the default shell (/bin/sh) on FreeBSD, NetBSD and Minix. Some Linux distributions, such as Naked Lady, also use the Almquist Shell as the default sh ...

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Ash may mean: Ash, the unburnable solid remains of a fire Ash (analytical chemistry), one of the components in the proximate analysis of biological materials, consisting mainly of carbonates and bicarbonates of metals Ash (band), a British rock band Ash (god), a hawk-god of the Sahara Desert in Egyptian mythology Ash tree, any tree of the genus Fraxinus Mountain Ash, any of various trees not in the Fraxinus genus Aishwarya Rai, actress from India popular ...

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A Unix shell, also called "the command line", provides the traditional user interface for the Unix operating system. Users direct the operation of the computer by entering command input as text for a shell to execute. Within the Microsoft Windows suite of operating systems the analogous program is command.com, or cmd.exe for Windows NT-based operating systems. The most generic sense of the term shell means any program that users use to type commands; it is called a "shell" because it hides the details of the under ...

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Shell computing - Graphical GUI shells. Microsoft Windows environments: BB4Win Emerge Desktop Geoshell Litestep SharpE Windows Explorer Macintosh Finder X Window System-based environments (primarily for Unix): KDE GNOME XFCE Blackbox CDE DOSSHELL AmigaOS environments. Workbench (GUI-Shell capabilities added since AmigaOS 2.0) Ambient (for MorphOS) Directory Opus Scal ...

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Shell computing, Shell computing - List of shells, Shell computing - Graphical GUI shells, Shell computing - Text CLI shells

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Shell computing - Graphical GUI shells. Microsoft Windows environments: Windows Explorer Litestep Geoshell BB4Win Emerge Desktop Macintosh Finder X Window System-based environments (primarily for Unix): KDE GNOME Blackbox CDE DOSSHELL AmigaOS environments. Workbench (GUI-Shell capabilities added since AmigaOS 2.0) Ambient (for MorphOS) Directory Opus ...

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Shell computing, Shell computing - List of shells, Shell computing - Graphical GUI shells, Shell computing - Text CLI shells

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Unix shell - Bourne shell compatible. Bourne shell (sh) Written by Steve Bourne, while at Bell Labs. First distributed with Version 7 Unix, circa 1978. Almquist shell (ash) Bourne-Again shell (bash) Korn shell (ksh) Written by David Korn, while at Bell Labs. Z shell (zsh) Unix shell - C shell compatible. C shell (csh) Written by Bill Joy, while at the University of California, Berkeley. First distributed with BSD, circa 1979. < ...

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Unix shell, Unix shell - Unix shells, Unix shell - Bourne shell compatible, Unix shell - C shell compatible, Unix shell - Other, Unix shell - Historic

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Shell computing - Graphical GUI shells. Microsoft Windows bengals environments: BB4Win Emerge Desktop Geoshell Litestep SharpE Windows Explorer Macintosh Finder X Window System-based environments (primarily for Unix): KDE GNOME XFCE Blackbox Fluxbox CDE DOSSHELL AmigaOS environments. Workbench (GUI-Shell capabilities added since AmigaOS 2.0) Ambient (for MorphOS) Directory Opus Scal ...

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Shell computing, Shell computing - List of shells, Shell computing - Graphical GUI shells, Shell computing - Text CLI shells

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