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LKSH(1) | General Commands Manual | LKSH(1) |
NAME¶
lksh
—
Legacy Korn shell built on mksh
SYNOPSIS¶
lksh |
[-+abCefhiklmnprUuvXx -+o opt-c
string | -s
| file
[args ... ] |
DESCRIPTION¶
lksh
is a command interpreter intended
exclusively for running legacy shell scripts. It is built on
mksh
; refer to its manual page for details
on the scripting language. It is recommended to port scripts to
mksh
instead of relying on legacy or
idiotic POSIX-mandated behaviour, since the MirBSD Korn Shell scripting
language is much more consistent.
LEGACY MODE¶
lksh
has the following differences from
mksh
:
- There is no explicit support for interactive use, nor any command line
editing or history code. Hence,
lksh
is not suitable as a user's login shell, either; usemksh
instead. - The
KSH_VERSION
string identifieslksh
as “LEGACY KSH” instead of “MIRBSD KSH”. lksh
only offers the traditional ten file descriptors to scripts.lksh
uses POSIX arithmetics, which has quite a few implications: The data type for arithmetics is the host ISO C long data type. Signed integer wraparound is Undefined Behaviour. The sign of the result of a modulo operation with at least one negative operand is unspecified. Shift operations on negative numbers are unspecified. Division of the largest negative number by -1 is Undefined Behaviour. The compiler is permitted to delete all data and crash the system if Undefined Behaviour occurs.- The rotation arithmetic operators are not available.
- The shift arithmetic operators take all bits of the second operand into account; if they exceed permitted precision, the result is unspecified.
- The GNU
bash
extension &> to redirect stdout and stderr in one go is not parsed. - The
mksh
command line option-T
is not available. - Unless
set -o posix
is active,lksh
always uses traditional mode for constructs like:$ set -- $(getopt ab:c "$@") $ echo $?
lksh
, unlike AT&T UNIXksh
, does not keep file descriptors > 2 private.
SEE ALSO¶
mksh(1) https://www.mirbsd.org/mksh.htm https://www.mirbsd.org/ksh-chan.htmCAVEATS¶
To uselksh
as
/bin/sh, compilation to enable
set -o posix
by default is highly
recommended for better standards compliance.
lksh
tries to make a cross between a legacy
bourne/posix compatibl-ish shell and a legacy pdksh-alike but
“legacy” is not exactly specified.
The set
built-in command does not have all
options one would expect from a full-blown
mksh
or
pdksh
.
Talk to the MirOS development team using the mailing list at
⟨miros-mksh@mirbsd.org⟩ or the
#!/bin/mksh
(or #ksh
) IRC
channel at irc.freenode.net (Port 6697 SSL,
6667 unencrypted) if you need any further quirks or assistance, and consider
migrating your legacy scripts to work with
mksh
instead of requiring
lksh
.May 22, 2013 | MirBSD |