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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting korn shell version at runtime? Post 26652 by LivinFree on Wednesday 21st of August 2002 08:56:04 PM
Old 08-21-2002
And then there's pdksh - think of it as a broken implimentation of ksh...
pdksh sets the variable $KSH_VERSION...
If you're on a "free" system (Linux, possibly BSD as well), you will have this instead of the real ksh, due to the license.

I always install the real ksh though, since it works better.
 

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let(1)                                                             User Commands                                                            let(1)

NAME
let - shell built-in function to evaluate one or more arithmetic expressions SYNOPSIS
ksh let arg... DESCRIPTION
ksh Each arg is a separate "arithmetic expression" to be evaluated. EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned: 0 The value of the last expression is non-zero. 1 The value of the last expression is zero. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
ksh(1), set(1), typeset(1), attributes(5) SunOS 5.10 15 Apr 1994 let(1)
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