Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 09/27/2000 12:37:52 AM
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Subject: Re: [plug] bash on AIX
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Christian Carag wrote:
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> 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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I guess that a lot would depend on the version of bash, there have been
some systems which just link /usr/bin/ksh to bash - so it would have all
the power of ksh. And the shell resides between the user/app and kernel -
I am not sure why there would be any emulation problems while executing AIX
utilities.
AIX5L was developed to be a multi-platform unix operating system, or at
least thats a.f.a.i.k.
Janethe T. Co
Systems Services Representative - RS/6000
IBM Global Services
Tel. no: 8192000 loc. 1747
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