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KornShell Maintenance

KornShell
KindProgramming language
Appeared1983
StatusMaintenance
CreatorDavid Korn / Bell Labs
Familyshell
Also known asksh
Sourcegithub.com ↗

Bourne-compatible with C shell's conveniences — AT&T's enterprise shell and the grammar PowerShell later studied.

Descended from Bourne shell
Created by David Korn
Influenced Bash PowerShell
Predecessors Bourne shell

David Korn's ksh (1983) — the KornShell — merged Bourne compatibility with csh's interactive features: command editing, arrays, built-in math, and the fastest shell of its era.\n\nIt became the POSIX shell baseline; ksh93 remains the AT&T standard.

Sources

  1. github.com/ksh93/ksh
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KornShell