[Gllug] Shell

[Ian Northeast]

"Jackson, Harry" wrote:
> 
> Hi all
> 
> 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.

AIX defaults to K shell. Solaris defaults to bourne. As both K and bash
are supersets of bourne, writing in plain old bourne syntax covers most
circumstances.

Regards, Ian

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