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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Logical expression in POSIX compliant Korn Shell Post 302603226 by Corona688 on Wednesday 29th of February 2012 10:43:28 AM
Old 02-29-2012
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Originally Posted by ysrini
I am debating which one to pick, the dtksh or posix. We are migrating to Redhat Linux soon and i don't know the version of Korn it comes with. I want to code to be Korn and POSIX compliant and not break after migration
If you want pure POSIX compliance, use pure POSIX, not KSH. Pure POSIX shell code will work in SH and KSH, while things using KSH features(arrays, etc) might only work in KSH...
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pure-statsdecode(8)						     Pure-FTPd						       pure-statsdecode(8)

NAME
pure-statsdecode - Show human-readable dates from a "stats" logfile SYNTAX
pure-statsdecode filename pure-statsdecode - DESCRIPTION
This program decodes Pure-FTPd's "stats" log files and converts timestamps into human-readable dates. OPTIONS
- means to read the standard input. filename is a log file produced with pure-ftpd -O ftpstats:/path/to/logfile EXAMPLES
To run this program the standard way type: pure-statsdecode /var/log/pureftpd.log > /tmp/pureftpd.humanlog Alternativly you can run it as: cat /var/log/pureftpd.log | pure-statsdecode - | gzip --best > /tmp/pureftpd.humanlog.gz AUTHORS
Frank DENIS <j at pureftpd dot org> SEE ALSO
ftp(1), pure-ftpd(8) pure-ftpwho(8) pure-mrtginfo(8) pure-uploadscript(8) pure-statsdecode(8) pure-pw(8) pure-quotacheck(8) pure-authd(8) RFC 959, RFC 2228, RFC 2389 and RFC 2428. Pure-FTPd team 1.0.36 pure-statsdecode(8)
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