bash(1)
NAME
bash-minimal - A bash version configured with minimal features
SYNOPSIS
bash [options] ... [file]
DESCRIPTION
bash-minimal is configured using --enable-minimal-config, which produces a shell with minimal features, close to the historical Bourne
shell. This means:
· No alias expansion and the `alias' and `unalias' builtins.
- · No support for the alternate form of the `for' command that behaves
- like the C language `for' statement.
- · No support for one-dimensional array shell variables.
- · No support for `csh'-like history substitution.
- · No `csh'-like brace expansion ( `b{a,b}c' ==> `bac bbc' ).
- · No support for recognizing `time' as a reserved word and for dis
- playing timing statistics for the pipeline following `time'. This allows pipelines as well as shell builtins and functions to be timed.
- · No support for the `[[' conditional command.
- · No support for a `csh'-like directory stack and the `pushd',
- `popd', and `dirs' builtins
- · No support for the `((...))' command.
- · No support for the extended pattern matching features.
- · No `help' builtin, which displays help on shell builtins and vari
- ables.
- · No command history and the `fc' and `history' builtin commands.
- · No job control features.
- · No special handling of filenames of the form `/dev/tcp/HOST/PORT'
- and `/dev/udp/HOST/PORT' when used in redirections.
- · No process substitution.
- · No interpretation of a number of backslash-escaped characters in
- the `$PS1', `$PS2', `$PS3', and `$PS4' prompt strings.
- · No programmable completion facilities.
- · No support for command-line editing and history with the Bash ver
- sion of the Readline library.
- · No support for a "restricted shell". If this is enabled, Bash,
- when called as `rbash', enters a restricted mode.
- · No `select' builtin, which allows the generation of simple menus.