Shells with a small footprint

[Joel Sherrill]

Matthew J Fletcher wrote:
> 
> Hi,.
> 
> I have been looking in vein for a small shell for use in embedded
> systems, sh/ksh/bash/ash/tcsh/zsh etc are all to unix (i.e large)
> based and are out of our league as far as prom sizes go.
> 
> Are there any taylored small shells available, or any cut down versions
> of the above ?

You might want to take a look at some of the stuff from
opensource.lineo.com.
In particular Busy Box looks interesting. 
 
> regards
> 
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> Matthew J Fletcher
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