Ash (Almquist Shell) Variants

ARG_MAX $@ $() ) Ash (Almquist Shell) Variants 2006-02-14 .. 2021-02-13 (see recent changes) After I had repeatedly wondered how all those "ash" variants might be related, and had found hardly any information, I had a closer look at the variants I know. Source is available for all variants, except for BSD/OS. Thanks to TUHS for archiving the traditional BSDs and 386BSD, to Kirk McKusick for his CSRG archive, and to Peter Seebach for allowing me to learn all BSD/OS variants. This page documents relationships. And for the variants without changelogs (the traditional BSDs, 386BSD, BSD/OS and Minix) this page aims at being a complete log concerning source code changes. But for the other, later variants this was certainly not the goal and just a few, arbitrarily chosen changes or bugfixes are listed. Why no commented diffs? I won't manage to do that work. And if you're interested on this level, then you are looking at the source already and these comments are a good start. Co ... Read full article.