Stand-alone shell

sash
Screenshot of the sash shell
Developer(s)	David Bell
Stable release	v3.8 March 2014
Operating system	Unix-like
Type	Embedded
Website	http://members.tip.net.au/~dbell/

Stand-alone shell (sash) is a Unix shell designed for use in recovering from certain types of system failures.

The built-in commands of sash have all libraries linked statically, so unlike most shells, the standard UNIX commands do not rely on external libraries. For example, the copy command (cp) requires libc.so and ld-linux.so when built from GNU Core Utilities on Linux. If any of these libraries get corrupted, the coreutils cp command would not work; however, in sash, the built-in command, cp, would be unaffected.

Sash has the following built-in commands:

ar, chattr, chgrp, chmod, chown, cmp, cp, dd, echo, ed, exec, grep, file, find, gunzip, gzip, kill, losetup, ln, ls, lsattr, mkdir, mknod, rmdir, sum, sync, tar, touch, umount, where

sash-plus-patches

sash-plus-patches is a collection of patches for sash. The key features are the chroot, pivot root, and losetup commands. These functions provide interfaces to the respective Linux system calls. They are especially useful when sash is used in an initial ramdisk ("initrd") environment. In addition, simple shell variable expansion support has been added; e.g., the variable "$(VAR)" is replaced by the content of the environment variable "VAR".

Some Linux distributions, such as Debian and Slackware (via SlackBuilds.org), have this available.

References

Sources

sash - Linux man page

External links

sash homepage

Unix command-line interface programs and shell builtins

File system	cat chmod chown chgrp cksum cmp cp dd du df file fsck fuser ln ls mkdir mount mv pax pwd rm rmdir split tee touch type umask

Processes	at bg chroot cron fg kill killall nice pgrep pkill ps pstree time top

User environment	clear env exit finger history logname mesg passwd su sudo uptime talk tput uname w wall who whoami write

Text processing	awk banner basename comm csplit cut diff dirname ed ex fmt fold head iconv join less more nl paste printf sed sort spell strings tail tr uniq vi wc xargs yes

Shell builtins	alias cd echo test unset wait

Networking	dig host ifconfig inetd netcat netstat nslookup ping rdate rlogin route ssh traceroute

Searching	find grep locate whatis whereis

Documentation	apropos help man

Miscellaneous	bc dc cal expr lp od sleep true and false

List of Unix utilities

Unix shells

Bash Bourne Almquist csh es fish Hamilton Korn PWB rc sash tcsh Thompson Wish zsh

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Stand-alone shell

sash-plus-patches

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