On: KornShell 2020 – Impossible Happens

[jmclnx]

Well the largest advantage is you can write and test scripts on Linux that will work on UN*X (like AIX) where bash does not exist. Also this works:

awk '{printf("%s %s %s %s", $1, $2, $3, $4)}' < file | read v1 v2 v3 v4

and many ksh scripts outside of Linux uses that syntax