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Elvish vs KornShell

A side-by-side look at Elvish and KornShell. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Elvish

Elvish

Development

Elvish is an expressive, friendly and open shell and scripting language for Linux/UNIX. It combines the convenience of interactive shells with the programmability of scripting languages. Elvish supports handy features like pathname expansion, pipelines, redirections and variables.

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KornShell

KornShell

Development

KornShell (ksh) is a Unix shell and command language written by David Korn. It is backward-compatible with the Bourne shell and includes many features from Bash and C shell. KornShell is known for its interactive scripting and job control features.

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