kevin@IGOR.TAMRI.COM (Kevin Dalley) (04/11/91)
Archive-name: unix/shell/cwru-bash/1991-04-10 Archive-directory: ftp.cwru.edu:/pub/bash/ [129.22.8.44] Original-posting-by: kevin@IGOR.TAMRI.COM (Kevin Dalley) Original-subject: Korn shell Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN) > Just a short plea to the folks at SGI: > Please consider including ksh as one of the standard shells. > I know the AT&T license may cost a few bucks, but it's money well spent. You should try bash, the Bourne Again SHell. cwru has a copy of their version available by anonymous ftp from slc2.INS.CWRU.Edu in /pub/bash/bash-1.07.cwru.tar.Z, with other bash information information available. cwru's version compiles nicely on the IRIX. An extraction from the man page: Bash is a sh-compatible command language interpreter that executes commands read from the standard input or from a file. Bash incorporates useful features of the Korn shell (ksh) and the C shell (csh) as well. It has most of the ksh features that I liked, including the ability to write large shell programs that run *really* slow. Of course, it's also free. Try it. Kevin Dalley kevin@tamri.com