kiss(1)

NAME

bkiss, gkiss, rkiss - small staticly linked shell with

many builtins.

SYNOPSIS

bkiss|gkiss|rkiss  [-C]  [-d] [-e] [-E] [-h] [-k] [-v] [-c
cmd] [file[file ...]

DESCRIPTION

Kiss is basically a simple shell interpreter, like Bash or

Tcsh, except that it lacks a good deal of the sophistication of a

good shell. What Kiss does have over Bash or Tcsh, is a good deal

of built-in programs. E.g. "ls" or "mount" are built-ins, which

means that Kiss is ideal as a shell interpreter on rescue disks.

Just create a bootable disk, put Kiss on it as your login shell

interpreter, and you're all set. No need to put "ls", "cat",

"more" or other programs on the disk. Which means that you can

put other important files on the rescue diskette.

There are three different binaries - bkiss, gkiss and

rkiss.

bkiss is a `bare' version, lacking line editing (but

yielding a smaller executable).

gkiss has getline support, offering command line editing.

rkiss is linked with GNU's Readline support: it has line

editing and filename completion like, e.g., bash, but is bigger

that other kiss binaries.

The following builtins are recognized: alias cat cd chgrp

chmod chown cp echo exec grep help history kill ln ls mkdir mknod

more mount mv printenv pwd quit read recall rm rmdir setenv sleep

source touch umount unsetenv ver wc where

Note: nfsmount is really a seperate program, and is in

cluded inside mount(1) on Linux just for convenience. kiss's

mount does not support "nfs".

OPTIONS

-C Exit on ^C (default is to ignore).

-d Debug run, do not start programs.

-e Suppress printing exit status of programs.

-E Suppress setting of environment variables.

-h Print usage message and exit.

-k Keep control of processes started (kill them on ex

it).

-v Print version number and exit.

-c cmd Run one command and exit (must be last). If no

files are given, standard input is read instead.

AUTHOR

Kiss was originally written by Karel Kubat <karel@ic

ce.rug.nl>.

As of Sep. 1997 Kiss is not longer maintained by Karel Ku

bat. Please do not send changes/improvements/bug fixes to him,

but send them to Sven Van Den Steene <kiss@skynet.be>, the new

maintainer of kiss.

This manual page was written by Tomas Kuliavas <tokul@big

foot.com> for the Debian project but may be used elsewhere under

the GPL.

0.21 2006-07-26

KISS(1)