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KSH (Korn shell) is a posix compliant shell developed by David Korn.

Installation

Use emerge to install

root #emerge --ask app-shells/ksh

Configuration

The configuration of ksh can be done in the file ~/.kshrc

User shell

To use ksh as the default user shell use the command chsh

user $chsh -s /usr/bin/ksh

Removal

Unmerge

root #emerge --ask --depclean --verbose app-shells/ksh

See also

• Dash — a small, fast, and POSIX-compliant shell.
• Dsh — a shell that allows parallel execution of remote commands across large numbers of servers
• mksh — an actively developed free implementation of the Korn Shell programming language and a successor to the Public Domain Korn Shell
• Shell — command-line interpreter that offers a text-based interface to users.
• Zsh — an interactive login shell that can also be used as a powerful scripting language interpreter.

External resources

• Ksh command