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Almquist shell

The Almquist shell (ash) is Kenneth Almquist's clone of the Bourne shell. It is a fast, small, POSIX-compatible Unix shell. Ash is useful for running shell scripts, but it does not feature job control or other features that other interactive shells such as bash and ksh offer.

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