From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Lombard Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 20:57:27 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] ksh for ia64 Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org roneng@ca.ibm.com wrote: > > Hi, > > Does anyone know if there is an ia64 pdksh rpm available anywhere, Or > has been able to compile, and run pdksh success fully? > It's on my to-do list as ksh is needed for some of our products. For interaction, bash may be sufficient -- it has been for me, a long-time, expert, ksh user. If you prefer vi editing, put "set editing-mode vi" in your ~/.inputrc file. While bash isn't KSH-88 conformant (pdksh isn't either), it does have many features that make it quite acceptable. For my scripting, bash's typeset command is fairly limited and print doesn't exist; but other features, such as command substition, e.g., $( ... ), substrings of variables, e.g., ${0##*/}, and compound if, e.g., [[ ... ]], work as expected. -- David N. Lombard MSC.Software