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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.