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by **Maki Pavlidi** » Sun, 25 Oct 1998 04:00:00

> Hello,
> I am cosidering buying "Learning the Korn shell" from O'Reiley.
> Is this the best choice for a reference as well as to learn from?
> Does anyone have a favorite they could recommend.?

BTW, the version I will predominately use is pdksh for Linux.Does anyone know
how compatible this is with the original Korn shell?

Quote:> thanks,
> Maki Pavlidis.

by **Maki Pavlidi** » Sun, 25 Oct 1998 04:00:00

Hello,
I am cosidering buying "Learning the Korn shell" from O'Reiley.
Is this the best choice for a reference as well as to learn from?
Does anyone have a favorite they could recommend.?

thanks,
Maki Pavlidis.

by **Daniel Chirill** » Sun, 25 Oct 1998 04:00:00

I have the same question. Please respond to the group.

Quote:>BTW, the version I will predominately use is pdksh for Linux.Does anyone
know
>how compatible this is with the original Korn shell?

>> thanks,
>> Maki Pavlidis.

by **Michael Wa** » Sun, 25 Oct 1998 04:00:00

Quote:>Hello,
>I am cosidering buying "Learning the Korn shell" from O'Reiley.
>Is this the best choice for a reference as well as to learn from?

No. the book by Korn himself is the best one, the new kornshell.
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by **Tom Smit** » Tue, 27 Oct 1998 04:00:00

> BTW, the version I will predominately use is pdksh for Linux.Does anyone know
> how compatible this is with the original Korn shell?

> > thanks,
> > Maki Pavlidis.

You can download the real Korn Shell (free for non-commercial use) from
http://www.kornshell.com. It's the one I use on RedHat 5.1. Download it,
place it in /, gunzip it and untar it. That's it. It works perfectly.
Just make sure that you have root's default login shell set to something
other that pdksh when you install it. It has to overwrite some stuff
(which I found out the hard way :-} )>

HTH,

Tom

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by **brian hile** » Wed, 28 Oct 1998 04:00:00

> how compatible this [pdksh] is with the original Korn shell?

I could be verbose about the differences between distribution ksh (including
ksh93 as discussed in a different thread) and pdksh, but suffice to say
that it is a respectable effort to give SunOS a ksh when it did not have
one, but fails miserably when stressed to its limits with complex scripts.

I do not mind shells wherein their limitations are documented verities, but
for that shell to host undocumented bugs and/or inconsistent interfaces
makes it for me a shell not worth the potential grief.

-Brian

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