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AdmiralAsshat on Oct 10, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: KornShell 2020 – Impossible Happens

What does Korn Shell offer over Bash shell, again? I've never used it, other than encountering a few legacy scripts on customer systems written in ksh that stopped working when they migrated over to RHEL/Centos7 and ksh was no longer installed by default.

siteshwar on Oct 11, 2019 [–]

Discipline functions, floating point arithmetic, compound data types etc. Original KornShell is still more powerful programming langauge than bash.

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