Um...thankyou, but I'm very familiar with "what" a shell is having been an
avid Linux user for 2 years now. Maybe I should have been a little more
clear in my query. What is a "Korn" shell? As in, what is this particular
shell program like and what are it's attributes? How does it perform and
behave and stack up against Konsole, xterm, and so on?
--
Mark
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On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, [X-UNKNOWN] Pe�a Arellano Fabian Erasmo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I don't know much either, but I can tell you what I know.
> A shell is the command interpreter people use to tell Linux to do things.
> When we see the "shell" prompt:
>
> [fabian@axolotl fabian]$
>
> we know the system is waiting for the user to tell it to do
> something. Different shells have different sets of commands, but share
> many of them as well. I guess some
> shells are better than others to acomplish certain tasks. Linux-Mandrake
> has several shells a user can pick up from as his/her defaul shell. You
> can see the bash a user has in Userdrake --> Options --> Preferences; or
> by typing "echo $SHELL" without the quotes in the "shell prompt". The Korn
> shell is one out of the many shells there are, but is not included --as
> far as I know-- in the Mandrake 7.2 installation. I recall reading that
> for know the most of the linux distributions include the Bash shell as the
> default one.
> This is not much information, but you can read that in any book
> about Linux or Unix. Greetings from Mexico.
>
> Fabian.
>
> On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Mark Weaver wrote:
>
> > I'm a little ignorant here but very curious. What is the "korn shell"?
> >
> >
>
>
