Korn Shell - Design

Design

KornShell complies with POSIX.2, Shell and Utilities, Command Interpreter (IEEE Std 1003.2-1992.)

Major differences between KornShell and the traditional Bourne shell include:

  • Job control, command aliasing, and command history designed after the corresponding C shell features;
  • Three WYSIWYG-style line editing modes designed to make an interactive shell session behave like vi, Emacs, or XEmacs;
  • Associative arrays and built-in floating point arithmetic operations (only available in the ksh93 version of KornShell.)

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