ksh is a UNIX shell based on pdksh and inspired by KornShell which is developed by the OpenBSD team. This project is an effort to maintain a package that compiles on Linux and macOS.
I've been an OpenBSD user since 2002 and dearly miss its default shell when I'm traveling to different operating systems. After various attempts at maintaining patches, I created a dedicated project to maintain a port that compiles on both Linux and macOS.
installation on macOS
$ brew install tamentis/core/openbsd-ksh
installation requirements on Ubuntu
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install make gcc libc-dev ncurses-dev
installation requirements on Centos
$ sudo yum install gcc make ncurses-devel
installation on most Unix
$ ./configure $ make $ sudo make install
what's missing
- There is no call to `pledge()`, since it does not exist outside of OpenBSD.
- This package will not install ksh as sh replacement, neither will it install the corresponding sh man page, this is not intended as a system shell.
disclaimer
I cannot be held responsible for whatever damage is done to your system from using that code. It is provided AS IS, with NO WARRANTY, either expressed or implied.download
GitHub: http://github.com/tamentis/ksh