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The Future of the Korn Shell may be in Dangerous Hands

This post discusses recent events relating to the maintainance and development of the Korn Shell.

Printing Bash or Korn Shell Script Arguments

This post discusses various issues, workarounds and solutions to printing details of arguments (AKA positional parameters) passed to shell scripts via the command line upon invocation of the shell script.

Korn Shell Launcher for Windows Subsystem for Linux

In this post, I show you how to create a Korn Shell launcher for the new Windows Subsystem for Linux.

Porting KSH93 to Windows 7 SUA

This post shows you how to download, build and install the latest version of the Korn shell in the Windows 7 SUA subsystem.

Korn Shell 93 Hash Builtins

This post shows you how to incorporate hash functions built into the AT&T Advanced Software Technologies (AST) libsum library in your Korn shell shell scripts via custom builtins in a dynamically loadable plugin.