ksh (was: /dev/tcp)
Geoff Clare <[email protected]>
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c186282 wrote: > On 8/21/26 08:41, Geoff Clare wrote: >> >> According to https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/061 the feature was >> added to bash in version 2.04 and was "Copied from / Inspired by" ksh93. >> >> It certainly works in the versions of ksh93 I have. > > You run ksh93 ??? > > Not too many Kornies left these days :-) Ksh has been my preferred interactive shell since I first started using SVR4-based systems in the late 80's. Prior to that I used something called wash, short for Warwick Shell (a version of Bourne Shell with added interactive history, written by some folks - students I assume - at Warwick University in the UK). Wash's history mechanism used control characters for all the editing, which as a vi user I hated. Once I discovered ksh's vi mode I never looked back. I use bash as a fallback when ksh isn't available, but a few things in its vi mode don't quite work the same way. -- Geoff Clare <[email protected]>