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Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 09:19:37 -0700
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From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: RE: Ash manual/info. (was: Re: "==" operand not found)
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At 07:39 2002-10-24, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > > 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,
>
>'man sh' should get you the ash manpage.
>         Igor

On my system, there "man ash" gives an extensive, detailed manual page on 
ASH. "Man sh" gives the same page:

% ll /usr/man/man1/{ash,sh}.1
-rwxrwxrwx    1 Administ None        37065 Jan 31  2002 /usr/man/man1/ash.1*
lrwxrwxrwx    1 Administ None           16 Jul 31 11:35 /usr/man/man1/sh.1 
-> ash.1*


According to the package search page (<http://cygwin.com/packages/> -- 
which is dog slow, by the way), the "ash" package itself includes the 
"ash.1" manual page source file.

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


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