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README.md: remove bashisms #8

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Expand Up @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ For people who thought little of MS-DOS , the existence of MINIX (with source co
MINIX is a great tool for learning about Linux. MINIX is like a small and simplified version of Linux - Linus took heavy inspiration from it, and his legendary ["nothing big"](https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~awb/linux.history.html) post announcing Linux was first posted on the comp.os.minix news board. Within MINIX you will find many familiar Unix/Linux tools and features, including:

- A similar directory structure: files such as /etc/utmp, /etc/passwd, /dev are where you expect them to be.
- A Bash interpreter (ash) with source code.
- A POSIX sh interpreter (ash) with source code.
- Similar filesystem conventions: just as in Linux, you can mount filesystems directly onto the root filesystem with `mount`.
- A similar system administration structure, with familiar utilities like `chmod`, `mkfs`, `mkisofs` (`genisoimage`), `part` (similar to `fdisk` or `parted`) an Emacs clone (elle), and a Vim clone (evil).

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- Compilers (MINIX ships with its own miniature C compiler, ACKPACK)
- Filesystems and disk partitioning
- Hardware
- Bash scripting
- POSIX sh scripting
- Data structures and algorithms

## Making your own hard disk image
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