ksh Differences

The known differences between the dbx command interpreter (pdksh) and `ksh88' are:

• No array support
• Unimplemented set -o options: allexport bgnice gmacs markdirs noclobber nolog privileged protected viraw
• New set -o options: hashall ignore suspend path
• Unimplemented typeset Command options: -l, -u, -L, -R, -H, -Z.
• A new typeset Command option, -q
• dbx commands are built in.
• The bind command allows rebinding of editing functions.
• Language expressions such as $[p->x]
• C syntax for hexadecimal and octal number.
• Csh-like history access
• Csh-like alias arguments
• print Command is named kprint
• New kprint Command and read Command option, -e
• Backquote is a dbx scope-resolution operator; use $() instead.
• [[ expr ]] is unimplemented
• New pattern operators (like `@(...)') are unimplemented
• Co-processes are not implemented
• kill Command without an argument kills the target process