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Operating Systems AIX BASH on AIX Post 99299 by bakunin on Thursday 16th of February 2006 05:03:16 AM

02-16-2006

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Sitting in an environment with a load of software developers who first thing after logon enter "bash" on the commandline I'm not so sure if it is really recommendable.

Are there any significant advantages of bash over ksh? No, not really. Yes, you can use the cursor keys in bash out of the box whereas you can use them in ksh only after at least 5 minutes of configuration - big deal! I haven't seen anyone using any real differences in these two shells save for that.

The downside is, AIX is mostly built upon ksh and this won't change. When writing scripts you better assume as little as possible about the system your script will run on and that means you write scripts for AIX machines in ksh and nothing else. But writing scripts in one shell while you are using another will be more difficult than using the same shell for both purposes. One can't use the commandline to test something he wants to use in a script.

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suspend

suspend(1)                                                         User Commands                                                        suspend(1)

NAME

       suspend - shell built-in function to halt the current shell

SYNOPSIS

   sh
       suspend

   csh
       suspend

   ksh
       suspend

DESCRIPTION

   sh
       Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell).

   csh
       Stop the shell in its tracks, much as if it had been sent a stop signal with ^Z. This is most often used to stop shells started by su.

   ksh
       Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell).

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         |      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability                 |SUNWcsu                      |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       csh(1), kill(1), ksh(1), sh(1), su(1M), attributes(5)

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