[aklug] Re: bash sucks

I seem to remember that the Korn shell had a few gotchas for folk used to Sy=
stem V Bourne - lol.

On Feb 3, 2012, at 10:19 PM, Arthur Corliss <acorliss@nevaeh-linux.org> wrot=
e:

> On Fri, 3 Feb 2012, Christopher Howard wrote:
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>> Not enough... Yet. Need to write some more shell scripts, and even
>> then, I still haven't tried Korn. Ksh claimes to be the best of bash
>> and tcsh put together.
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> Korn is a derivative of Bourne, with a lot of features borrowed from csh.
> Parts of the new POSIX specs for the shell were based on it. So, if you
> know bash, Korn will seem largely familiar. AIX's default shell is Korn.
> pdksh is a port that runs well on Linux. I've never tried to compile the
> official AT&T source.
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> --Arthur Corliss
> Live Free or Die
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Received on Fri Feb 3 23:24:46 2012