installing korn shell
4 messages · started by George Praggastis on May 06, 2026
installing korn shell
From George Praggastis · May 06, 2026
I would like to compare bash (default) to korn in several areas.
But having trouble loading korn. Any advice?
When I try to install using Mint, it says in effect the required repository is offline. When I inspect /cat sources.list it says korn is in a repository on a devise that was used to install Mint?
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Have a good day...George
installing korn shell
From George Praggastis · May 06, 2026
I would like to compare bash (default) to korn in several areas.
But having trouble loading korn. Any advice?
When I try to install using Mint, it says in effect the required repository is offline. When I inspect /cat sources.list it says korn is in a repository on a devise that was used to install Mint?
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Have a good day...George
Re: installing korn shell
From Devi Garcia · May 06, 2026
sudo apt install ksh
Apparently is way to install it.. and to load it without change the shell should be able to edit the terminals config and have it load korn vs bash.. although personally never heard of that shell.. usually the most popular ones are zsh, bash or fish...
On Wed, May 6, 2026, 10:19 AM George Praggastis <dmarc-noreply@freelists.org> wrote:
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I would like to compare bash (default) to korn in several areas. But having trouble loading korn. Any advice? When I try to install using Mint, it says in effect the required repository is offline. When I inspect /cat sources.list it says korn is in a repository on a devise that was used to install Mint?
I would like to compare bash (default) to korn in several areas.But having trouble loading korn. Any advice?When I try to install using Mint, it says in effect the required repository is offline. When I inspect /cat sources.list it says korn is in a repository on a devise that was used to install Mint?--Have a good day...George
Re: installing korn shell
From George Praggastis · May 06, 2026
Thanks Devi the install worked.
I am interested in korn because a book I have says its better than bash in a couple of areas and ex complex scripts faster.
Also I found that for each terminal session:
Available shells are listed in /etc/shells;
Temporary shell change is done by just naming the shell (ksh, kshb93, rksh93 may all be aliases or flavors of the korn shell).
Current shell in use is displayed by echo $0;
Default shell for each user is in /etc/passwd;
Default shell can be set by using chsh command or by editing /etc/passed.
Have a good day...George
On Wed, May 6, 2026, 10:23 AM Devi Garcia <dmarc-noreply@freelists.org> wrote:
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sudo apt install ksh Apparently is way to install it.. and to load it without change the shell should be able to edit the terminals config and have it load korn vs bash.. although personally never heard of that shell.. usually the most popular ones are zsh, bash or fish... On Wed, May 6, 2026, 10:19 AM George Praggastis < dmarc-noreply@freelists.org > wrote:
sudo apt install kshApparently is way to install it.. and to load it without change the shell should be able to edit the terminals config and have it load korn vs bash.. although personally never heard of that shell.. usually the most popular ones are zsh, bash or fish...On Wed, May 6, 2026, 10:19 AM George Praggastis <dmarc-noreply@freelists.org> wrote:
I would like to compare bash (default) to korn in several areas.But having trouble loading korn. Any advice?When I try to install using Mint, it says in effect the required repository is offline. When I inspect /cat sources.list it says korn is in a repository on a devise that was used to install Mint?--Have a good day...George