oksh
ast
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oksh
- Oasis – a small, statically-linked Linux system
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Faster Shell Startup with Shell Switching
David Korn's ksh93 was passed on to a new set of developers, who attempted to release a new version; AT&T rolled back these changes due to performance problems which raised questions of support status. It does appear that ksh93 development has resumed, and a new version was released late last year.
https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/releases
The independent pdksh spawned mksh, which is the default shell used in Android (as it has a BSD license); mksh appears to be very much active.
http://www.mirbsd.org/mksh.htm [https site has cert problems]
OpenBSD also forked oksh from pdksh. This is certainly well-maintained.
https://github.com/ibara/oksh
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CVE-2022-45063: Xterm
I don't know if this is helpful or just annoying unsolicited "advice"
Anyway, for those of us who like openbsd ksh(all two of us) which is derived from pdksh. there is the project oksh.
https://github.com/ibara/oksh
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What is a good alternative to Zsh?
I like oksh: https://github.com/ibara/oksh
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OpenBSD 7.0 Released
...and that ksh descended from pdksh, and is distributed as the oksh portable project here:
https://github.com/ibara/oksh
The MirBSD Korn Shell also descended from pdksh, and it can be found here:
http://www.mirbsd.org/mksh.htm
I don't know about the feature differences and code quality between these two; they both implement most of ksh88, and a small amount of ksh93.
I prefer mksh when I need something more than a POSIX shell.
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Which ksh is used in openbsd?
Brian Callahan publishes a portable version here: https://github.com/ibara/oksh
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What goes into porting a program/library?
Porting from OpenBSD, look for the portable versions and their compat layer. https://github.com/ibara/oksh/blob/master/portable.h
ast
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A Generation Lost in the Bazaar (2012)
I suspect the intended point of comparison is the monolithic Unix of old, where the entirety of the code of the system is (hopefully, ostensibly, allegedly) developed with a single vision, except for the applications in the narrowest sense of the word (e.g. the particular piece of numerics you need to design your airplane or whatnot, but not the editor you used to write it, the cluster scheduler you used to run it, the typesetter you used to write down your results, or the 3D viewer you used to present them).
One example that’s just plain interesting to read to see what things people were exploring (because, let’s admit it, historical Unix source gets plain boring after a while) is AT&T Research’s https://github.com/att/ast.
- Syntax Highlighting for OpenBSD's pdksh(1)?
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Showing GUIs from Shell Scripts
Aha, I shall have a dig through https://github.com/att/ast/tree/master/src/lib/libtksh then.
Thank you kindly.
What are some alternatives?
loksh - A Linux port of OpenBSD's ksh
ksh - ksh 93u+m: KornShell lives! | Latest release: https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/releases
minishell - A simplified bash-like shell, with pipes, redirections and variable expansion.
InitWare - The InitWare Suite of Middleware allows you to manage services and system resources as logical entities called units. Its main component is a service management ("init") system.
vCoolor.vim - Simple color selector/picker plugin for Vim.
openbsd-src - jcs's openbsd hax
yad - Yet Another Dialog
cicada - An old-school bash-like Unix shell written in Rust
Shell - Very basic and cut down clone of standard unix shell
pomod - pomodoro daemon
dotfiles