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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Logical expression in POSIX compliant Korn Shell Post 302603054 by ysrini on Wednesday 29th of February 2012 03:07:37 AM
Old 02-29-2012
The box is HP-UX 11.11

Code:
echo $SHELL

Version M-11/16/88f

$
Code:
whereis ksh

ksh: /usr/bin/ksh /usr/dt/man/man1/ksh.1 /usr/dt/share/man/man1/ksh.1 /usr/share/man/man1.Z/ksh.1

$
Code:
 ksh

Version 11/16/88

What's the latest recommended version of Korn shell (and POSIX compliant) that I can use?

Thanks,
-srinivas yelamanchili
 

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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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