Andreas Mohr writes:

the busybox menuconfig triggered my "inacceptable number of spelling mistakes"
upper level, so I decided to make a patch ;-)

I also improved some wording to describe some things in a better way.

Many thanks for an incredible piece of software!

Andreas Mohr, random OSS developer

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/shell/Config.in b/shell/Config.in
index 6cd3e04e4..016af719a 100644
--- a/shell/Config.in
+++ b/shell/Config.in
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ choice
         default CONFIG_FEATURE_SH_IS_NONE
         help
           Choose a shell. The ash shell is the most bash compatible
-          and full featured.
+          and full featured one.
 
 config CONFIG_FEATURE_SH_IS_ASH
         select CONFIG_ASH
@@ -39,8 +39,8 @@ config CONFIG_ASH
         help
           Tha 'ash' shell adds about 60k in the default configuration and is
           the most complete and most pedantically correct shell included with
-          busybox.  This shell is actually a derivitive the Debian 'dash' shell
-          (by Herbert Xu), which was created by porting the 'ash' shell
+          busybox.  This shell is actually a derivative of the Debian 'dash'
+          shell (by Herbert Xu), which was created by porting the 'ash' shell
           (written by Kenneth Almquist) from NetBSD.  
 
 comment "Ash Shell Options"
@@ -101,9 +101,10 @@ config CONFIG_HUSH
         bool "hush"
         default n
         help
-          hush is very small shell (just 18k) and it has fairly complete Bourne
-          shell grammer.  It even handles all the normal flow control options
-          such as if/then/elif/else/fi, for/in/do/done, while loops, etc.
+          hush is a very small shell (just 18k) and it has fairly complete
+          Bourne shell grammar.  It even handles all the normal flow control
+          options such as if/then/elif/else/fi, for/in/do/done, while loops,
+          etc.
 
           It does not handle case/esac, select, function, here documents ( <<
           word ), arithmetic expansion, aliases, brace expansion, tilde
@@ -117,7 +118,7 @@ config CONFIG_LASH
           lash is the very smallest shell (adds just 10k) and it is quite
           usable as a command prompt, but it is not suitable for any but the
           most trivial scripting (such as an initrd that calls insmod a few
-          times) since it does not understand any Bourne shell grammer.  It
+          times) since it does not understand any Bourne shell grammar.  It
           does handle pipes, redirects, and job control though.  Adding in
           command editing makes it a very nice lightweight command prompt.
 
@@ -129,7 +130,7 @@ config CONFIG_MSH
           The minix shell (adds just 30k) is quite complete and handles things
           like for/do/done, case/esac and all the things you expect a Bourne
           shell to do.  It is not always pedantically correct about Bourne
-          shell grammer (try running the shell testscript "tests/sh.testcases"
+          shell grammar (try running the shell testscript "tests/sh.testcases"
           on it and compare vs bash) but for most things it works quite well.
           It also uses only vfork, so it can be used on uClinux systems.