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Re: KSH is pdksh
- To: khan at NanoTech dot Wisc dot EDU
- Subject: Re: KSH is pdksh
- From: Chet Ramey <chet at nike dot INS dot CWRU dot Edu>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 10:26:40 -0500
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com, dkarr at tcsi dot com, chet at po dot cwru dot edu
- Read-Receipt-To: chet@po.CWRU.Edu
- Reply-To: chet at po dot CWRU dot Edu
> 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).
pd-ksh doesn't implement them either. It attempts to emulate ksh88, with
a few ksh93 features that POSIX specifies.
The ksh88 and ksh93 features that bash does not implement (with suggested
bash equivalents for a few) are listed in the FAQ.
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