Julian Church wrote: > Thanks for that - it does look useful. They've got a book there about bash > - is that the one I want?
I haven't read it but most of their books are highly recommended, since they usually are useful for beginners -> experts as well as excellent reference material at the same time. If you look at the symlinks in /bin you will notice something, though: # ls -l -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 93340 Nov 1 17:13 ash lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Nov 12 09:29 bash -> ash lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Nov 12 09:29 sh -> ash They point to the ash shell. Ash is usually used for simplicity and it doesn't need that much space. It's used on the installation disks with Slackware, for example, whereas bash is usually used with the common distributions after a complete installation, since it has more advanced options and won't complain about space on a hard disk. http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/cstein/Documentation/ash.html It's good to read up on both, ash and bash, and since you mention it I think I will, too. I'm, by no means, a shell expert! :-) -- Patrick Benson Stockholm, Sweden _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
