[Gllug] Shell

Kim Hawtin kim at aldigital.co.uk
Mon Mar 4 13:35:19 UTC 2002


On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 01:10:27PM -0000, Jackson, Harry wrote:
> I have been using a HP-UX box here and the shell used on this machine is ksh
> or Korn shell. What is the most likely shell that you will encounter on
> commercial boxes. I know most people are using Bash but that is not an
> option here. I also noticed that it has Perl but thats a task for another
> day.

/bin/sh is common, as is /bin/csh.
i have even seen /bin/tcsh on occaions.
and for perl, check that its not perl 4 ...

yours,

kim
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