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Old 10-06-2006
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Originally Posted by dutchman
Thanks, we are teaching scripting, but need more; currently we lean towards the ksh, although most of the material that I have read does state that scripts should typically use the Bourne shell.
You will find that ksh is available on almost all boxes, but not on Linux. I haven't seen any Linux based system that had the original ksh. There is a pdksh, but it differs from the original ksh and you may find that your scripts fail in unexpected places.

If you want to write scripts that will work on any system that they are run on (and that in itself is pretty difficult), you should use sh.
 

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times(1)							   User Commands							  times(1)

NAME
times - shell built-in function to report time usages of the current shell SYNOPSIS
sh times ksh times DESCRIPTION
sh Print the accumulated user and system times for processes run from the shell. ksh Print the accumulated user and system times for the shell and for processes run from the shell. On this man page, ksh(1) commands that are preceded by one or two * (asterisks) are treated specially in the following ways: 1. Variable assignment lists preceding the command remain in effect when the command completes. 2. I/O redirections are processed after variable assignments. 3. Errors cause a script that contains them to abort. 4. Words, following a command preceded by ** that are in the format of a variable assignment, are expanded with the same rules as a vari- able assignment. This means that tilde substitution is performed after the = sign and word splitting and file name generation are not performed. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
ksh(1), sh(1), time(1), attributes(5) SunOS 5.10 15 Apr 1994 times(1)
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