ash: ash (Kenneth Almquist's ash shell) ash: ash: A lightweight (92K) Bourne compatible shell. Great for machines with ash: low memory, but does not provide all the extras of shells like bash, ash: tcsh, and zsh. Runs most shell scripts compatible with the Bourne ash: shell. Note that under Linux, most scripts seem to use at least some ash: bash-specific syntax. The Slackware setup scripts are a notable ash: exception, since ash is the shell used on the install disks. NetBSD ash: uses ash as its /bin/sh. ash: ash: