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Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: leoric1928 on 1 December 2002, 17:18

Title: Korn Shell
Post by: leoric1928 on 1 December 2002, 17:18

Good day,

   Hi to all, I would just like to know what are the Free Unix OS that uses Korn Shell?
   I hope it is available for download because I am studying Korn Shell programming. Tnx

Title: Korn Shell
Post by: LorKorub on 1 December 2002, 17:22

All of them, I believe, come with a package called pdksh (Public Domain Korn Shell.) It is just up to you to decide which distro you'd like to try. All are good for programming.

You get a lot of cool shells that you wouldn't normally get under a propreitary UNIX.  zsh is pretty cool (If you like Korn Shell.)

Title: Korn Shell
Post by: voidmain on 2 December 2002, 10:30

You can get the real Korn Shell with the links below. If I recall, the PDKSH doesn't have built in math functionality where the real KSH does. This is one of the most important features of the Korn Shell. Here you can get the real Korn shell:

If you are using an RPM based system get this:

ftp://speakeasy.rpmfind.net/linux/contrib/libc6/i386/ksh93-2000.10.31.0-1.i386.rpm (http://ftp://speakeasy.rpmfind.net/linux/contrib/libc6/i386/ksh93-2000.10.31.0-1.i386.rpm)

Or you can get it here at the main site:

http://www.research.att.com/~gsf/download/ (http://www.research.att.com/~gsf/download/)

More specifically here:
http://www.research.att.com/~gsf/download/tgz/ast-ksh.2002-09-22.linux.i386.tgz (http://www.research.att.com/~gsf/download/tgz/ast-ksh.2002-09-22.linux.i386.tgz)