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KornShell

KornShell (ksh) is a Unix shell which was developed by David Korn at Bell Labs in the early 1980s and announced at USENIX on July 14, 1983. The initial development was based on Bourne shell source code. Other early contributors were Bell Labs developers Mike Veach and Pat Sullivan, who wrote the Emacs and vi-style line editing modes' code, respectively.…

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Available in
English
Final release
93u+ / August 1, 2012; 14 years ago (2012-08-01)
License
AT&T KornShell: Eclipse Public License · pdksh: Public domain with some ISC-like code · mksh: MirOS Licence · dtksh: Eclipse Public License with some LGPL
Operating system
Unix and Unix-like (e.g. Linux and macOS; also works in Windows 10)
Original author
David Korn
Preview release
93v- / December 24, 2014; 11 years ago (2014-12-24)

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KornShell

Nodes68
Edges67
Triples61
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.029412
Components1

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KornShell

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related to Further reading · 17
KornShell → April, Archived, Bolsky, Charles, David, ISBN, Jeffery Korn, July, Korn, Linux Journal, Morris, NJ, Northrup, Prentice Hall PTR, The, The New KornShell, Upper Saddle River
related to history · 12
KornShell → As KornShell, AST, AT, Bash, Eclipse Public License, In, Open Source Software Collection, Release, Software Technology, T's Experimental Toolchest, These, UNIX System
related to Features · 10
KornShell → Bourne, Bourne Shell, Command Interpreter, Emacs, Gosling Emacsassociative, IEEE Std, Major, POSIX, Shell, Utilities
related to Variants · 6
KornShell → CDE, David Korn, There, Tk, Unix, UWIN
License · 4
KornShell → AT&T KornShell: Eclipse Public License, dtksh: Eclipse Public License with some LGPL, mksh: MirOS Licence, pdksh: Public domain with some ISC-like code
Available in · 1
KornShell → English
Final release · 1
KornShell → 93u+ / August 1, 2012; 14 years ago (2012-08-01)
Operating system · 1
KornShell → Unix and Unix-like (e.g. Linux and macOS; also works in Windows 10)
Original author · 1
KornShell → David Korn
Preview release · 1
KornShell → 93v- / December 24, 2014; 11 years ago (2014-12-24)

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shell ksh ksh93 korn version pdksh bell software unix default david ast code also many release repository variant 2020 new

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KornShellAvailable inEnglish1.00infobox
KornShellFinal release93u+ / August 1, 2012; 14 years ago (2012-08-01)1.00infobox
KornShellLicenseAT&T KornShell: Eclipse Public License1.00infobox
KornShellLicensepdksh: Public domain with some ISC-like code1.00infobox
KornShellLicensemksh: MirOS Licence1.00infobox
KornShellLicensedtksh: Eclipse Public License with some LGPL1.00infobox
KornShellOperating systemUnix and Unix-like (e.g. Linux and macOS; also works in Windows 10)1.00infobox
KornShellOriginal authorDavid Korn1.00infobox
KornShellPreview release93v- / December 24, 2014; 11 years ago (2014-12-24)1.00infobox
KornShellRelease1983; 43 years ago (1983)1.00infobox
KornShellRepositorygithub.com/att/ast1.00infobox
KornShellTypeUnix shell1.00infobox
KornShellWebsitekornshell.com1.00infobox
KornShellWritten inC1.00infobox

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