[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Unix gurus help!
>
>I installed bash on the AIX box here and some guy made this comment: "The
>default shell for AIX is ksh. bash DOES NOT take full advantage of the power
>and functions of the AIX operating system and is a shell specifically useful for
>the Linux operating system only.
A shell (whether sh, ksh, csh, or bash) is a pretty simple C program and its main role
is to provide a program execution environment for command-line users and basic job
control (except possibly for the original sh, which had none that I can recall).
It may also provide some basic looping constructs as a convenience for programmers,
but that's really optional.
> bash also poses emulation problems when
>executing some of the standard AIX administration utilities."
Oh, what a load of bull. Maybe he just forgot to set some environment variables.
Once you start another program from the command line, the unix kernel takes care of
execution. The parent shell no longer has much to do with the child process and can't
really do much except stop it or wait for it to terminate.
>Is this true?
In a word, no. Your friend doesn't know what he's talking about.
JR
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