KSH is pdksh

Chet Ramey chet@nike.INS.CWRU.Edu
Thu Jan 25 07:39:00 GMT 2001


> 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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( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet)

Chet Ramey, CWRU    chet@po.CWRU.Edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/

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