Unix Shell - Re: portability

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Re: portability

Geoff Clare

2005-11-29, 5:58 pm

Sven Mascheck <cus.p.mascheck@spamgourmet.com> wrote, on Tue, 29 Nov 2005:

> - Linux, FreeBSD-/Net-/OpenBSD don't have a "subshell optimizing"
> shell available per default.

It depends what "per default" means for Linux, but for some Linux
distro's that might not be entirely true. On Debian systems (and
presumably other distro's based on Debian) you can "apt-get install ksh"
to install ksh93, you don't have to get it from www.kornshell.com.

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Geoff Clare <netnews@gclare.org.uk>