On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Harald Becker <[email protected]> wrote:
>  Hallo Dan!
>
>>> ash manpage
>>>> I completely failed to pick that up last time I looked for it.
>> Is there any reason this isn't included in the Busybox source package?
>> ash is probably the most complex applet included, and therefore the most
>> likely to diverge from any upstream documentation.
>
> I would like to see that one included in the Busybox package too.
> Especially as neither the Busybox manpage nor any help text say's
> anything about the features ash.
>
> BTW: Shouldn't "busybox ash --help" not give a short summary of
> invocation options and at least say something like "Standard command
> interpreter for the system, mostly POSIX compliant." ... and here we
> could add "(See ash.1 manual page for more information)" ... is anything
> wrong with this? ... does anybody complain about the extra size this needs?

How about this?

$ ./busybox ash --help
BusyBox v1.19.0.git (2011-03-07 11:25:29 CET) multi-call binary.

Usage: ash [-/+OPTCHARS] [-/+o OPTNAME]... [-c 'SCRIPT' [ARG0 [ARGS]]]
/ [SCRIPT_FILE [ARGS]]

Unix shell interpreter


$ ./busybox hush --help
BusyBox v1.19.0.git (2011-03-07 11:25:29 CET) multi-call binary.

Usage: hush [-nx] [-c 'SCRIPT' [ARG0 [ARGS]]] / [SCRIPT_FILE [ARGS]]

Unix shell interpreter


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vda
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