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On 08/19/2011 10:38 AM, big glass wrote:
>
> so what is ash exactly??

Another name for dash, which is a lighter-weight shell than bash.  In 
particular, since dash pulls in fewer shared libraries, it can rebase 
things that bash cannot.

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