non-critical impact:

ksh - functional differences (NcWn126)

Problem description

There are several functional differences between the Korn shell (ksh) on Tru64 UNIX, which is functionally equivalent to the POSIX shell, and standard shell (ksh) on HP-UX.

Examples of functional differences include support of the $USER environment variable; varying levels of support for internationalized range expressions; and varying name limits.

Identifiers

ksh

See also

• Background information on command and utilities impacts
• ksh(1)

Solution description

Because the ksh supplies a rich set of functionality, details on differences between the two implementations and recommendations for resolving differences are described in the Migrating from Tru64 UNIX to HP-UX Shells white paper.

See also

• ksh(1)
• Migrating from Tru64 UNIX to HP-UX Shells

Problem summary