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Re: What is /bin/jsh ?

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From: Chet Ramey
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 22:10
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In article <53285@mimsy.umd.edu> alex@cs.umd.edu (Alex Blakemore) writes:
>NeXT distributes /bin/jsh but no man page that I can see.
>what is it? (obviously a shell but any redeeming qualities?)

It's a version of sh with job control enabled, probably derived from the
BRL sh, maybe from Arnold Robbins's work (from 1984!) to put BRL's job
control code into the 4.2 BSD sh.

>any reason I shouldnt delete it to save space?

It's a hard link to /bin/sh, won't save anything.

Chet
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