Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" To: Subject: RE: Ash manual/info. (was: Re: "==" operand not found) Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 01:58:31 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal In-Reply-To: <3DB77B50.5F5F7F10@yahoo.com> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 > Randall R Schulz wrote: > > > > You're most likely accustomed on your Linux system to "/bin/sh" > > being BASH. On Cygwinm /bin/sh is ASH, and it is far more minimal > > in its implementation of the POSIX shell standard, and does not > > provide "==" as an equivalent for "=" in the "test" (a.k.a. "[") > > built-in. > > While there is an info file on bash, and even a man entry, there > seems to be nothing whatsoever about ash on the system. If we are > not able to use the abilities of bash, Put "#!/bin/bash" (no quotes) at the top of the script in question and go nuts. As far as ash docs are concerned, a quick Google reveals little other than that ash apparently stands for "[Kenneth] Almquist's sh". You'll probably have more success looking for "POSIX shell standards". -- Gary R. Van Sickle Brewer. Patriot. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/