Allow multiple shells to be enabled.
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							| @@ -51,6 +51,38 @@ Supported kernels: | ||||
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| Shells: | ||||
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| lash is the very smallest shell (adds just 10k) and it is quite usable as  | ||||
| a command prompt, but it is not suitable for any but the most trivial | ||||
| scripting (such as an initrd that calls insmod a few times) since it does | ||||
| not understand Bourne shell grammer.  It does handle pipes, redirects, and | ||||
| job control though.  Adding in command editing makes it very nice | ||||
| lightweight command prompt. | ||||
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| hush is also quite small (just 18k) and it has very complete Bourne shell | ||||
| grammer.  It handles if/then/else/fi just fine, but doesn't handle loops | ||||
| like for/do/done or case/esac and such.  It also currently has a problem | ||||
| with job control. | ||||
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| msh: The minix shell (adds just 30k) is quite complete and handles things | ||||
| like for/do/done, case/esac and all the things you expect a Bourne shell to | ||||
| do.  It is not always pedantically correct about Bourne shell grammer (try | ||||
| running the shell testscript "tests/sh.testcases" on it and compare vs bash) | ||||
| but for most things it works quite well.  It also uses only vfork, so it can | ||||
| be used on uClinux systems.  This was only recently added, so there is still | ||||
| room to shrink it further... | ||||
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| ash: This adds about 60k in the default configuration and is the most | ||||
| complete and most pedantically correct shell included with busybox.  This | ||||
| shell was also recently added, and several people (mainly Vladimir and Erik) | ||||
| have been working on it.  There are a number of configurable things at the | ||||
| top of ash.c as well, so check those out if you want to tweak things.  The | ||||
| Posix math support is currently disabled (that bit of code was horrible) but | ||||
| will be restored for the next BusyBox release. | ||||
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| Getting help: | ||||
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| When you find you need help, you can check out the BusyBox mailing list | ||||
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