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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting difference between ksh and bsh Post 80579 by tads98 on Tuesday 9th of August 2005 11:38:59 PM
Old 08-10-2005
difference between ksh and bsh

i am not that techie when it comes to unix. all i know is how to code...

kindly enlighten me regarding the difference between ksh and bsh. we are currently running scripts using ksh... what would be the implications if we need them to run using bsh?

thanks!
 

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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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