[PLUG] korn shell (was Re: plug digest, Vol 1 #764 - 1 msg)

[Will Andrews]

On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 01:50:45PM +0000, Jeff Wieland (wieland@purdue.edu) wrote:
> The Korn shell ships with the latest Slackware release.  And I don't
> mean pdksh, which doesn't implement noticeable KSH-88 features, like
> the % operator in let commands.  And you can download ksh from AT&T.
> Bash does ship with Solaris 8 now by the way...
> 
> I think that we need to steer clear of shell wars, which are 
> potentially every bit as bad as the editor wars...

This was not intended as a shell "war", just an analysis of the
usage of various shells in different UNIX flavors.  I avoided
inflammatory statements wherever possible...  8^)

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wca