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Date:      Fri, 26 Jan 2007 02:43:38 -0500
From:      "Dak Ghatikachalam" <dghatikachalam@gmail.com>
To:        "youshi10@u.washington.edu" <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [OT] What does this pipe do?
Message-ID:  <ba29b9b40701252343o1310d481n6ed70b045d8cfcf7@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0701251142310.18233@hymn07.u.washington.edu>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.43.0701251142310.18233@hymn07.u.washington.edu>

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On 1/25/07, youshi10@u.washington.edu <youshi10@u.washington.edu> wrote:
>
> Thank you everyone for the responses. It has been quite educating :).
>
> One other question though.. is ksh like the swiss army knife of all
> shells? Seems kind of odd that it supports both bourne shell constructs and
> (t)csh constructs.


Yes Ksh is very flexible and has been around for long time,   You can really
code in Ksh as we speak in English language. I learnt  right off the scratch
completely from man ksh .

It provides good debug capability with set -x option, it prints the commands
as it does and y
o u  can view the stdout, stdin and stder

regards
Dak

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