Subject: Re: Re: [ast-users] get & print which ksh version I am running
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> I am attempting to capture the version programmatically, not interactively
> (for
> ksh88, seems to be the only way). I ran the following test on the boxes I
> have
> access to. I don't have access to the one box with ksh93e that some of the
> SAs
> use. Many don't have the 'what' command. Interesting what some systems
> return
> and others don't. Also interesting, none returned data for all methods.
>
${.sh.version} should work for all ksh93 versions since it was in the original
version.
ksh --version will only work for recent versions as will $KSH_VERSION.
ksh88 requires that what command to get the version via programming.
The ast toolkit contains the what command.
David Korn
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