The Korn shell.
KSH is an abbreviation for korn shell. Korn shell is a command interpreter for the Unix programming language. It was written in 1983 by David Korn at Bell Labs.
There are many possible Unix shells that users have access to. Some of these are: sh - Bourne shell (the original shell) ksh - Korn shell bash - Bourne-again shell csh - C shell tcsh - variant of the C shell and other features zsh - the 'z' shell rsh - Restricted shell ksh93 - '93 version of ksh
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William Holliker has written: 'UNIX Shell commands quick reference' -- subject(s): UNIX (Computer file), UNIX Shells
They are both UNIX shells, that is some kind of old DOS environments on older PCs, but just doing similar things in UNIX. Both provide opportunities for scripting and doing other admin work in the UNIX environment. They differ slightly, and basically are about the same thing wrapped in different vendors presentations- if memory serves me well, Korn comes with Sun/Solaris ...and is supposed to be more up to date. Provided with Linux (which is quite like Unix) is the Bash shell which is derived from the Bourne shell and is a superset of it. See the link below for some more information.
There is no "default" Unix shell. Different Unix vendors shipped different shells.
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A Unix shell can be obtained in Cygwin, a Unix compatibility layer used to compile Unix programs and run them on Windows. Microsoft also makes a shell known as "Windows PowerShell" which incorporates more Unix-like features than the standard command prompt.
The a default Unix shell is the shell that comes with and is activated initially with your distribution of Unix. The shell is essentially the program the runs the command line interface allowing someone to interact with their computer. Some examples are the Bourne-Again shell (bash) or the Bourne shell (sh).
The first shell was 'sh', the Bourne Shell
1. Number of Users2. Task Processing3. Command-Line Interface4. Security5. PortabilityØ DOS is Single-UserØ DOS is Single Process,Ø DOS has its command interpreter (command.com).Ø Some versions of DOS allow password protection on fileØ DOS runs on Intel processors and compatible devices (8088, 8086, 286, 386, 486, Pentium).Ø UNIX is Multi-UserØ , UNIX supports multi-processing, multiple processes per user, and job control from the shellØ UNIX has the shell (C-shell, Korn Shell, Bourne Shell etc.)Ø . UNIX has username/password for logins, and user/group/world permissions on files and directories.Ø UNIX is available for a very wide variety of hardware platforms.