Ash (shell provided by busybox) tutorial

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Sukanto picture Sukanto · Feb 3, 2010 · Viewed 41.6k times · Source

I found that the busybox's ash syntax is different from the other standard shells (sh, bash, tcsh).
Is there any documentation of its syntax or a tutorial for ash ?

Answer

Dyno Fu picture Dyno Fu · Feb 3, 2010

http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/ash/#busybox from the link seems busybox ash is debian dash.

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