Developer(s) David Bell Operating system | Stable release v3.8 March 2014 Type Embedded | |
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.