.TH NASH 8 "Sat Mar 27 1999"
.UC 4
.SH NAME
nash \- script interpretor to interpret linuxrc images
.SH SYNOPSIS
\fBnash\fR [--quiet] [--force] \fIscript\fR

.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBnash\fR is a very simple script interpretor designed to be as small as
possible. It is primarily designed to run simple linuxrc scripts on an initrd
image. Arguments to commands may be enclosed in either single or double
quotes to allow spaces to be included in the arguments. Spaces outside of
quotations always delineate arguments, and so backslash escaping is supported.

Additionally, if nash is invoked as \fBmodprobe\fR, it will immediately
exit with a return code of zero. This is to allow initrd's to prevent some
extraneous kernel error messages during startup.

There are two types of commands, built in and external. External commands
are run from the filesystem via execve(). If commands names are given without
a path, nash will search it's builtin PATH, which is /usr/bin, /bin,
/sbin, /usr/sbin.

Currently, \fBnash\fR supports the following built in commands.

.TP
\fBaccess -[r][w][x][f] \fIpath\fR
Tells whether the current user has sufficient permissions to read, write, or
execture \fIpath\fR, or if the file exists (see \fBaccess(2)\fR for more
information).

.TP
\fBecho [item]* [> \fIfilename\fR]\fR
Echos the text strings given to a file, with a space in between each
item. The output may be optionally redirected to a file.

\fBexec\fR \fI<command>\fR
The command given is execed, overlaying the nash process.

.TP
\fBfind \fIdir\fR -name \fIname\fR
Display the path to files named \fIname\fR in or below directory \fIdir\FR.
This is a \fBvery\fR limited implementation of find(1).

.TP
\fBfindlodev\fR
Prints the full path to the first unused loopback block device on the
system. If none is available, no output is displayed.

.TP
\fBlosetup \fI/dev/loopdev\fR \fIfile\fR
Binds \fIfile\fR to the loopback device \fI/dev/loopdev\fR. See
\fBlosetup(8)\fR for information on loopback devices.

.TP
\fBmkdevices\fR \fIpath\fR
Creates device files for all of the block devices listed in 
\fB/proc/partitions\fR in the directory specfied by \fIpath\fR.

.TP
\fBmkdir\fR \fI[-p]\fR \fIpath\fR
Creates the directory \fIpath\fR. If \fI-p\fR is specified, this command
will not complain if the directory exists. Note this is a subset of the
standard \fBmkdir\fR \fI-p\fR behavior.

.TP
\fBmknod\fR \fIpath\fR \fI[c|b]\fR \fImajor\fR \fIminor\fR 
Creates a device inode for \fIpath\fR. This is identical to \fBmkdev\fR(1)
which the exceptions that it will not create named pipes and if the directories
in \fIpath\fR do not exist they will be automatically created.

.TP
\fBmkrootdev \fIpath\fR
Makes \fIpath\fR a block inode for the device which should be mounted
as root. To determine this device nash uses 
the device suggested by the root= kernel command line argument (if
root=LABEL is used devices are probed to find one with that label). If
no root= argument is available, /proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev provides
the device number.

.TP
\fBmount \fI[--ro]\fR -o \fIopts\fR -t \fItype\fR \fIdevice\fR \fImntpoint\fR
Mounts a filesystem. It does not support NFS, and it must be used in
the form given above (arguments must go first).  If \fIdevice\fR is of the form
\fBLABEL=\fIfoo\fR the devices listed in /fB/proc/partitions\fR will
be searched, and the first device with a volume label of \fIfoo\fR will
be mounted. Normal \fBmount\fR(2) options are supported, and \fB--ro\fR will
mount the filesystem read only for compatibility with older versions of nash.
The \fBdefaults\fR mount option is silently ignored.

.TP
\fBpivot_root \fInewrootpath\fR \fIoldrootpath\fR
Makes the filesystem mounted at \fInewrootpath\fR the new root filesystem,
and mounts the current root filesystem as \fIoldrootpath\fR.

.TP
\fBraidautorun \fImddevice\fR
Runs raid autodetection on all raid-typed partitions. \fImddevice\fR must
be a raid device (any will do).

.TP
\fBshowlabels\fR
Display a table of devices, their filesystem labels, and their uuids.

.TP
\fBumount \fIpath\fR
Unmounts the filesystem mounted at \fIpath\fR.

.SH RETURN VALUE
Returns 0 is the last command succeeded or 1 if it failed.

.SH OPTIONS
.TP
\fB-\-force\fR
Allows \fBforce\fR really execute the script, even though \fBnash\fR doesn't 
appear to be running from an initrd image.

.SH BUGS
Probably many. \fBnash\fR is \fbnot a shell\fR, and it shouldn't be thought of
as one. It isn't entirely different from a shell, but that's mostly by
accident.

.SH AUTHOR
.nf
Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
.fi