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Mandrake 10.0 - Shells

ash	0.3.8	BSD	A smaller version of the Bourne shell.	The ash shell is a clone of Berkeley's Bourne shell. Ash supports all of the standard sh shell commands, but is considerably smaller than bash. The ash shell lacks some features (for example, command-line histories), but needs a lot less memory. You should install ash if you need a lightweight shell with many of the same capabilities as the bash shell.
ash-static	0.3.8	BSD	A smaller version of the Bourne shell statically linked.	The ash shell is a clone of Berkeley's Bourne shell. Ash supports all of the standard sh shell commands, but is considerably smaller than bash. The ash shell lacks some features (for example, command-line histories), but needs a lot less memory. You should install ash if you need a lightweight shell with many of the same capabilities as the bash shell. This version is statically compiled.
bash1	1.14.7	GPL	The GNU Bourne Again shell (bash)	Bash is a GNU project sh-compatible shell or command language interpreter. Bash (Bourne Again shell) incorporates useful features from the Korn shell (ksh) and the C shell (csh). Most sh scripts can be run by bash without modification. Bash offers several improvements over sh, including command line editing, unlimited size command history, job control, shell functions and aliases, indexed arrays of unlimited size and integer arithmetic in any base from two to 64. Bash is ultimately intended to conform to the IEEE POSIX P1003.2/ISO 9945.2 Shell and Tools standard.
bash	2.05b	GPL	The GNU Bourne Again shell (bash).	Bash is a GNU project sh-compatible shell or command language interpreter. Bash (Bourne Again shell) incorporates useful features from the Korn shell (ksh) and the C shell (csh). Most sh scripts can be run by bash without modification. Bash offers several improvements over sh, including command line editing, unlimited size command history, job control, shell functions and aliases, indexed arrays of unlimited size and integer arithmetic in any base from two to 64. Bash is ultimately intended to conform to the IEEE POSIX P1003.2/ISO 9945.2 Shell and Tools standard. Bash is the default shell for Mandrake Linux. You should install bash because of its popularity and power. You'll probably end up using it.
bash-completion	20040101	GPL	Programmable completion for bash 2.05	bash-completion is a collection of shell functions that take advantage of the programmable completion feature of bash 2.05 and later.
busybox	1.00	GPL	Multi-call binary combining many common Unix tools into one executable.	BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable. It provides minimalist replacements for most of the utilities you usually find in GNU fileutils, shellutils, etc. The utilities in BusyBox generally have fewer options than their full-featured GNU cousins; however, the options that are included provide the expected functionality and behave very much like their GNU counterparts. BusyBox provides a fairly complete POSIX environment for any small or embedded system. BusyBox has been written with size-optimization and limited resources in mind. It is also extremely modular so you can easily include or exclude commands (or features) at compile time. This makes it easy to customize your embedded systems. To create a working system, just add /dev, /etc, and a kernel.
conmen	0.3.020804	GPL	Console menuscripts for Linux.	These are menu scripts for the bash shell. The program uses dialog and Xdialog.
pdksh	5.2.14	Public Domain	A public domain clone of the Korn shell (ksh).	The pdksh package contains PD-ksh, a clone of the Korn shell (ksh). The ksh shell is a command interpreter intended for both interactive and shell script use. Ksh's command language is a superset of the sh shell language. Install the pdksh package if you want to use a version of the ksh shell.
pdmenu	1.2.69	GPL	A simple text-based menu program	A simple full screen menu program, intended to be a comfortable login shell for inexperienced users.
sash	3.6	GPL	A statically linked shell, including some built-in basic commands	Sash is a simple, standalone, statically linked shell which includes simplified versions of built-in commands like ls, dd and gzip. Sash is statically linked so that it can work without shared libraries, so it is particularly useful for recovering from certain types of system failures. Sash can also be used to safely upgrade to new versions of shared libraries.
tcsh	6.12	BSD	An enhanced version of csh, the C shell	Tcsh is an enhanced but completely compatible version of csh, the C shell. Tcsh is a command language interpreter which can be used both as an interactive login shell and as a shell script command processor. Tcsh includes a command line editor, programmable word completion, spelling correction, a history mechanism, job control and a C language like syntax.
zsh	4.1.1	GPL	A shell with lots of features.	Zsh is a UNIX command interpreter (shell) usable as an interactive login shell and as a shell script command processor. Of the standard shells, zsh most closely resembles ksh but includes many enhancements. Zsh has command-line editing, built-in spelling correction, programmable command completion, shell functions (with autoloading), a history mechanism, and a lots of other features Install the zsh package if you'd like to try out a different shell.

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