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Almquist shell

Almquist shell (also known as A Shell, ash and sh) is a lightweight Unix shell originally written by Kenneth Almquist in the late 1980s. Initially a clone of the System V.4 variant of the Bourne shell, it replaced the original Bourne shell in the BSD versions of Unix released in the early 1990s.

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Developer
Kenneth Almquist
Operating system
Unix-like
Platform
Cross-platform
Release
May 30, 1989; 37 years ago (1989-05-30)
Type
Unix shell
Written in
C

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related to Dash · 12
Almquist shell → Dash, Debian Almquist, Debian Linux, GNU Readline, Herbert Xu, In, In September, Like, Line, NetBSD, POSIX, Xu's
Developer · 1
Almquist shell → Kenneth Almquist
Operating system · 1
Almquist shell → Unix-like
Platform · 1
Almquist shell → Cross-platform
Release · 1
Almquist shell → May 30, 1989; 37 years ago (1989-05-30)
Type · 1
Almquist shell → Unix shell
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Almquist shell → www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/ash/
Written in · 1
Almquist shell → C

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shell ash linux dash debian unix netbsd posix version almquist system ubuntu scripts default sh also kenneth used bin bourne

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Almquist shellDeveloperKenneth Almquist1.00infobox
Almquist shellOperating systemUnix-like1.00infobox
Almquist shellPlatformCross-platform1.00infobox
Almquist shellReleaseMay 30, 1989; 37 years ago (1989-05-30)1.00infobox
Almquist shellTypeUnix shell1.00infobox
Almquist shellWebsitewww.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/ash/1.00infobox
Almquist shellWritten inC1.00infobox
OpenWrtinstance ofTiny Core Linux and Linux-based router firmware0.80text
Tomatoinstance ofTiny Core Linux and Linux-based router firmware0.80text
DD-WRTinstance ofTiny Core Linux and Linux-based router firmware0.80text
Almquist shellrelated to DashIn0.60section
Almquist shellrelated to DashHerbert Xu0.60section

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