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authorEric Andersen2003-10-22 09:58:56 +0000
committerEric Andersen2003-10-22 09:58:56 +0000
commit88c916bdec7d444198f067529637b4a616ad3efe (patch)
tree12be1aa9b2eb9021ca7b7b4547efbf6e2f3eb023 /shell
parent951df20b7e8f776e71c1063f910c34f5cfd0bec4 (diff)
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Andreas Mohr writes:
the busybox menuconfig triggered my "inacceptable number of spelling mistakes" upper level, so I decided to make a patch ;-) I also improved some wording to describe some things in a better way. Many thanks for an incredible piece of software! Andreas Mohr, random OSS developer
Diffstat (limited to 'shell')
-rw-r--r--shell/Config.in17
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/shell/Config.in b/shell/Config.in
index 6cd3e04..016af71 100644
--- a/shell/Config.in
+++ b/shell/Config.in
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ choice
default CONFIG_FEATURE_SH_IS_NONE
help
Choose a shell. The ash shell is the most bash compatible
- and full featured.
+ and full featured one.
config CONFIG_FEATURE_SH_IS_ASH
select CONFIG_ASH
@@ -39,8 +39,8 @@ config CONFIG_ASH
help
Tha 'ash' shell adds about 60k in the default configuration and is
the most complete and most pedantically correct shell included with
- busybox. This shell is actually a derivitive the Debian 'dash' shell
- (by Herbert Xu), which was created by porting the 'ash' shell
+ busybox. This shell is actually a derivative of the Debian 'dash'
+ shell (by Herbert Xu), which was created by porting the 'ash' shell
(written by Kenneth Almquist) from NetBSD.
comment "Ash Shell Options"
@@ -101,9 +101,10 @@ config CONFIG_HUSH
bool "hush"
default n
help
- hush is very small shell (just 18k) and it has fairly complete Bourne
- shell grammer. It even handles all the normal flow control options
- such as if/then/elif/else/fi, for/in/do/done, while loops, etc.
+ hush is a very small shell (just 18k) and it has fairly complete
+ Bourne shell grammar. It even handles all the normal flow control
+ options such as if/then/elif/else/fi, for/in/do/done, while loops,
+ etc.
It does not handle case/esac, select, function, here documents ( <<
word ), arithmetic expansion, aliases, brace expansion, tilde
@@ -117,7 +118,7 @@ config CONFIG_LASH
lash is the very smallest shell (adds just 10k) and it is quite
usable as a command prompt, but it is not suitable for any but the
most trivial scripting (such as an initrd that calls insmod a few
- times) since it does not understand any Bourne shell grammer. It
+ times) since it does not understand any Bourne shell grammar. It
does handle pipes, redirects, and job control though. Adding in
command editing makes it a very nice lightweight command prompt.
@@ -129,7 +130,7 @@ config CONFIG_MSH
The minix shell (adds just 30k) is quite complete and handles things
like for/do/done, case/esac and all the things you expect a Bourne
shell to do. It is not always pedantically correct about Bourne
- shell grammer (try running the shell testscript "tests/sh.testcases"
+ shell grammar (try running the shell testscript "tests/sh.testcases"
on it and compare vs bash) but for most things it works quite well.
It also uses only vfork, so it can be used on uClinux systems.