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Written by Justine Smithies on 2025-01-15 at 22:15

Well I'm still daily driving #KornShell aka oksh after getting 20 plus years used to bash and I'm really liking using it. I can honestly say it's a work in progress but I'm learning as I go along and loving it. This feels unixy to me. #RunBSD #FreeBSD

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Written by Henk Langeveld on 2025-01-15 at 22:19

@justine

Fan of ksh93 for as long as it's been around.

Pity it was never really stable.

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Written by Henk Langeveld on 2025-01-15 at 22:21

@justine For interactive I don't really care. Both ksh and bash are ok.

For programming I still prefer Korn.

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Written by Henk Langeveld on 2025-01-15 at 22:43

@justine I must have started out on the old uni AT&T 3B2 with ksh88. That must have been 88 or 89. Early adopter.

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Written by Justine Smithies on 2025-01-15 at 22:45

Back in the day. I'm getting loads of retro vibes from using it. Reading up on it's history too from it's beginning when David Korn created it.

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Written by copsewood on 2025-01-16 at 00:12

@justine Here's an exercise I set for students encouraging them to learn how to develop their own command shells able to execute builtins and external commands several years ago. I think this is a good way to learn process management and interfacing 'C' programs to a kernel. I seem to remember implementing an interesting subset of sh or bash this way when I was researching to deliver this set of classes.

https://bcu.copsewood.net/pcnd3/tut5.html

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