KSH is pdksh
Mumit Khan
khan@NanoTech.Wisc.EDU
Wed Jan 24 19:07:00 GMT 2001
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> "David M. Karr" wrote:
> > "/usr/bin/bash.exe". Poof. You have Korn shell. As far as I can
> > tell, Bash can substitute for Korn shell in every area I'm familiar
> > with.
> >
Nope, bash is not ksh. There are quite a few ksh93 features that are not
implemented in bash (and possibly quite a few from ksh88 days, but I
don't have details on those).
> I knew that once upon a time. Thanks for reminding me. Hey miss bash
> maintainer how about a postinstall script to ln -s bash.exe ksh.exe?
Please don't. I personally very much dislike misleading links. If people
want ksh, they should go and port it using the AT&T's now open source
ksh93.
Regards,
Mumit
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