On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Christian Carag wrote:
..
> 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. bash also
> poses emulation problems when executing some of the standard AIX
> administration utilities."
That's probably BS. ksh (Korn shell) doesn't have anything special in it
w.r.t. bash.
Why don't you ask IBM? the new AIX5 comes with bash (in fact, it's bundled
with so many GNU utilities that people are -- half-jokingly -- saying it
should be called GNU/AIX).
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