Ksh88 manual

Solaris systems have three variants: /usr/bin/ksh is ‘ksh88’; it is standard on Solaris and later. /usr/xpg4/bin/sh is a Posix-compliant variant of ‘ksh88’; it is standard on Solaris 9 and later. /usr/dt/bin/dtksh is ‘ksh93’. Variants that are not standard may be parts of optional packages. Attempts command or file name completion as described in this manual page. If a partial completion occurs, repeating this behaves as if M-= were entered. If no match is found or entered after SPACE, a TAB is inserted. M-= If not preceded by a numeric parameter, generates the list of matching commands or file names as described in this manual page. ksh The break utility exits from the enclosed for, while, until, or select loop, if any. If n is specified, then break n levels. If n is greater than the number of enclosing loops, the outermost enclosing loop shall be exited. The continue utility resumes the next iteration of the enclosed for, while, until, or select loop.

I'm having trouble managing those two things because it seems all the learning resources for shell scripting are based heavily on Bash. Do you know any resource to learn how to do things entirely in POSIX compliant code? I know I can set my shell to bash for the specific scripts but that's not what i'm after. Thanks. 0 comments. ksh88 - An updated ksh version, mostly ship by some UNIX vendor such as Sun Solairs and installed as /bin/ksh. Hoever, most vendors now ship ksh ksh93 - An updated ksh version with many improvements such as arrays, floating point arithmetic, etc. Install ksh. Under Debian, or Ubuntu Linux, use apt-get command as follows to install ksh. As far as I'm aware Bash, zsh, and {pd,m}ksh have supported the exact same globs as documented in the ksh88 manual since early days. Ksh to this day doesn't even have an option to disable "extended" glob quantifiers, and ksh93 is the only one of the bunch to have any extensions beyond what ksh88 had.

It has two major variants commonly called ` ksh88 ' and ` ksh93 ', named after the years of initial release. It is usually called ksh, but is called sh on some hosts if you set your path appropriately. Solaris systems have three variants: /usr/bin/ksh is ` ksh88 '; it is standard on Solaris and later. The comparison chart you posted doesn't distinguish between the two major ATT ksh versions. It has just one column for ksh, so I don't know which one it is. But the exact differences between ATT ksh88 and ATT ksh93 are documented in the ATT ksh93 documentation. The other shells you were testing are neither ksh88 nor ksh Defining the Shell Type. To make a ksh script (which is a ksh program) crate a new file with a starting line like: #!/usr/bin/ksh. It is important that the path to the ksh is propper and that the line doesn not have more than 32 characters. The shell from which you are starting the script will find this line and and hand the whole script over.