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shellac

A super lean shell with basic batch processing functionality.

Total allocated memory footprint including code, stack, and heap is around 288KB on an x86-64 machine with 16GB RAM and an AMD FX6200 proc.

Has only the most basic of builtins, including cd and the ability to reference the users' home dir with the ~ (tilde) char.

Probably not very useful since there are so many other shells, especially with advanced functionality including their own scripting languages.

In any case, by comparison, BASH uses around 4.22MB after running a couple programs. So I guess it could be nice as an embedded solution or something like that if a small amount of additional functionality is implemented like some form of command history and an extended set of builtins; maybe use key mappings for favorited functions or something like that.

-JH

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