Welcome to Etsh (V6Shell) - etsh-5.4.0 ! I hereby dedicate this release of Etsh to my mother, Lavona Lou Neitzel. She passed away recently, and her birthday is/was/would have been today; she would have been 84 years old. This is for you, mom. <3 with love <3 Etsh provides two ports of the original /bin/sh from Version 6 (V6) UNIX (circa 1975). Etsh(1) is an enhanced, backward-compatible port of the V6 Thompson shell. Tsh(1) is an unenhanced port of the shell, and glob(1) is a port of its global command. Together, tsh and glob provide a user interface which is backward compatible with that provided by the V6 Thompson shell and global command, but without the obvious enhancements found in etsh. The original Thompson shell was principally written by Ken Thompson of Bell Labs. This package also includes the following shell utilities: if(1) - conditional command (ported from V6 UNIX) goto(1) - transfer command (ported from V6 UNIX) fd2(1) - redirect from/to file descriptor 2 They are external to tsh and are required for full functionality, while they are built into etsh and are required for full functionality as well. ------- See the INSTALL file for build and install instructions. ------- The etsh package should build successfully on any POSIX-compliant UNIX system. It has been reported to build successfully on the following systems: System Releases / Distributions / Additional Info ------------------------------------------------------------ DragonFly BSD 2.0.1 FreeBSD 6.1, 7.0, 8.2, 10.2 (Mac) OS X 10.[4-9], 10.10, 10.11 NetBSD 2.1, [345].*, 6.1, 7.[01], 8.0_STABLE OpenBSD 4.[1-7], 5.[0-9], 6.[0-4], 6.5-beta OpenIndiana Hipster 2018.04 GNU/Linux Debian 8.7 (jessie), Fedora 27 and 28 and 29, Slackware 13.0, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS ... Ubuntu 18.04 LTS .. Ubuntu 19.04 If your system is not reported above, simply try to build the etsh package and see if it works or not. In either case, please report the results to the developer if possible; the resulting "config.h" file and the compiler name/version is most helpful. Please report the results from running 'make check' too if possible, as doing so can be quite helpful. Please send etsh bug reports to . Before reporting a bug, please try to reproduce it with the latest version of the code. With bug reports, please try to ensure that enough information to reproduce the problem is enclosed. Also, if a known fix for it exists, then please include that as well. If you have any comments or questions about this software, I encourage you to contact me via email. Thanks & Enjoy! Jeffrey Allen Neitzel https://etsh.nl/ 2019/03/28 @(#)$Id: README,v 1.12 2019/03/26 16:01:22 jneitzel Exp $