man sh says it's ash Latchezar
> -----Original Message----- > From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 7:06 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Rd] What version is sh? > > > On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 14:40:45 -0500, I wrote: > > >I'm trying to write an automatic check of the toolset > installation for > >R. It'll get all the tools to print their version numbers, and > >complain if they aren't acceptable ones. > > > >However, I can't see how to get sh to print version information. Is > >there some way to do it? > > > >The sh I'm worried about is the one that comes with Cygwin, if there > >isn't a standard approach. > > Several people suggested the GNU standard "--version" command > line option, which works for most of the Cygwin utilities, > but not this one. Dirk Eddelbeuttel said > > >I'd suspect that it is one of the small shells which e.g. > Debian calls > >them ash and dash; these are used on boot floppies and the > like where > >space is at a premium. As a consequence, they may not support all > >full-blown command-line options. So to test the shell, you > may need to > >run a small shell script containing the features you want to > make use > >of later. > > I think it must be one of those. The executable is about 1/8 > the size of the bash executable. > > Duncan Murdoch > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listi> nfo/r-devel > ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel