RE: Is ksh available on cygwin

[Luke Bakken <luke_bakken at yahoo dot com>]

pdksh compiles ootb and is pretty much the same as ksh.

this won't work the same as AT&T korn shell:
print 'hey' | read a; print $a

but it probably won't matter.

On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Sanjay Gupta wrote:

> Thanks for information.
>
> I have some Oracle monitoring scripts that have been written for Unix
> platforms using ksh. I have one database which is running on NT. I was
> trying to port those scripts for cygwin. Since ksh is not available for now,
> what I have done is just copy bash.exe to ksh.exe. In this way, I don't have
> to do much changes,  because every script has first line #!/bin/ksh and also
> the shell script extenstion are .ksh
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew T. Schnable [mailto:schnable@enteract.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 2:21 PM
> To: Sanjay Gupta; cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: Is ksh available on cygwin
>
>
> I'm a long-time ksh guy - but I have found bash to be a very workable
> substitute.   It starts up in an emacs editing mode - if you prefer vi -
> do a "set -o vi".
>
> Andy
> schnable@enteract.com
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sanjay Gupta" <SGupta@Epylon.com>
> To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 3:46 PM
> Subject: Is ksh available on cygwin
>
>
> > Hello All,
> > I want to know, whether ksh is available on cygwin. I am not able to find
> > ksh. Is it called by some different name in cygwin ?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Sanjay
> >
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