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Martin Geisler
Asked: 2011-12-15 04:33:34 +0800 CST

What version of ksh ships with AIX 5.3?

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I'm writing a Korn shell script for a client, who will use it on AIX 5.3. For testing, I'm using version 93u-1 Debian Wheezy. Is this the same version as the one I'll find on AIX?

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  1. Best Answer

    In summary, no.

    oslevel -s
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    /usr/bin/ksh - Version M-11/16/88

    /usr/bin/ksh93 - Version M-12/28/93

    The version may differ slightly between different TL/SP levels in AIX. AIX by default uses ksh, and very little uses ksh93. Obviously, you can configure your script to use /usr/bin/ksh93. /usr/bin/ksh93 is provided by the same fileset which provides the other shells (bos.rte.shell).

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