BSD Ports

shells/mksh 59bnb4 NetBSD

MirBSD Korn Shell

System
NetBSD
Repository
pkgsrc
Maintainer
[email protected]
License
miros
Categories
shells
Package size
194.8 KiB, 492.1 KiB installed

Description

mksh is the MirBSD enhanced version of the Public Domain Korn shell (pdksh), a Bourne-compatible shell which is largely similar 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.

The code has been thoroughly cleaned up and simplified, bugs fixed, standards compliance added, and several enhancements (for extended compatibility to other modern shells, as well as a couple of its own) have been placed. mksh has UTF-8 support (e.g. in the emacs editing mode).

In the other systems

SystemPortVersion
NetBSDshells/mksh59bnb4
FreeBSDshells/mksh59c_3
DragonFlyshells/mksh59c_1
MidnightBSDshells/mkshr59.c

Install

Binary package:

pkgin install mksh

From pkgsrc:

cd /usr/pkgsrc/shells/mksh && make install clean

Dependencies

No port depends on this one.