MirBSD Korn Shell

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http://mirbsd.de/mksh

mksh is the MirBSD enhanced version of the Public Domain Korn
shell (pdksh), a Bourne-compatible shell which is largely si‐
milar to the original AT&T Korn shell; mksh is the only pdksh
derivate currently being actively developed. It includes bug
fixes and feature improvements, in order to produce a modern,
robust shell good for interactive and especially script use.
mksh has UTF-8 support (in substring operations and the Emacs
editing mode) and, while R40e corresponds to OpenBSD 5.1-cur‐
rent ksh (without GNU bash-like PS1 and fancy character clas‐
ses), adheres to SUSv4 and is much more robust. The code has
been cleaned up and simplified, bugs fixed, standards compli‐
ance added, and several enhancements (for extended compatibi‐
lity to other modern shells – as well as a couple of its own)
are available. It has sensible defaults as usual with BSD.

Authors:
Thorsten Glaser

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Filename Size Changed
mksh-R50b.tgz 0000372648 364 KB
mksh-vendor-mkshrc.patch 0000001192 1.16 KB
mksh.changes 0000006510 6.36 KB
mksh.spec 0000005703 5.57 KB
Revision 8 (latest revision is 25)
Stephan Kulow's avatar Stephan Kulow (coolo) accepted request 247591 from Guido Berhoerster's avatar Guido Berhoerster (gberh) (revision 8)
- update to version 50b
  - [Ypnose] Fix operator description in the manpage
  - [tg] Change all mention of “eglibc” to “glibc”, it is merged
    back
  - [Colona] Fix rare infinite loop with invalid UTF-8 in the edit
    buffer
  - [tg] Make more clear when a shell is interactive in the manpage
  - [tg] Document that % is a symmetric remainder operation, and
    how to get a mathematical modulus from it, in the manpage
  - [tg, Christopher Ferris, Elliott Hughes] Make the cat(1)
    builtin also interruptible in the write loop, not just in the
    read loop, and avoid it getting SIGPIPE in the smores function
    in dot.mkshrc by terminating cat upon user quit
  - [tg] Make some comments match the code, after jaredy from obsd
    changed IFS split handling
  - [tg] Fix some IFS-related mistakes in the manual page
  - [tg] Document another issue as known-to-fail test IFS-subst-3
  - [tg] Improve check.pl output in some cases
  - [tg, Jb_boin] Relax overzealous nameref RHS checks
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