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Shell programming

Shell programming

Posted Dec 14, 2012 9:53 UTC (Fri) by oak (subscriber, #2786)
In reply to: Shell programming by man_ls
Parent article: Quotes of the week

Many embedded systems have just Busybox because Perl and Python are too large & redundant for them.

Busybox utilities conform nowadays pretty well to POSIX, there are just a few corner case things that aren't implemented.


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