A new beta version of the AST Toolkit and ksh93 have posted on the AT&T
website, http://www.research.att.com/sw/download. Click on the word beta
on the left side of this download page.
There are many significant new features for ksh93 in the last six months as
well as many bug fixes. Here are some of the new features. The RELEASE
file
in the ksh93 source directory has a log of all the changes. Here are some
of the highlights.
1. Bash style programmable command completion.
2. A bash compatibility mode which runs many more bash scripts without
change. When in this mode, the shell uses dynamic scoping for functions
and function name, and name() are equivalent.
3. The read command can read json format files to create a ksh93 compound
variable with the read -m json. It is already able to write ksh93
compound variables in json format.
4. The jobs command how displays the directory in which the command was
started if it is not the current directory. This is a bash feature that
I found useful.
5. The expansion ${$variable} to get the value of the variable named by
variable.
6. Several options have been added to commands to aide in Bash
compatibility.
We are hoping to get an official release for ksh93v by the end of this
year. Please
let us know of any problems you have.
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