ksh Review

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KornShell (ksh) is a Unix shell. KornShell is backward-compatible with the Bourne shell and includes many features of the C shell, inspired by the requests of Bell Labs users.

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It's a de facto standard

ksh comes from Bill Joy, in the days before Bash, and it's also native to Solaris so you should always write your scripts to support this shell.

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