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6.6.1 AIX shells
Shells provide a way for you to communicate with the operating system. This
communication is carried out either interactively (input from the keyboard is
acted upon immediately) or as a shell script. A shell script is a sequence of shell
and operating system commands that is stored in a file.
Please refer to the
Shells section of the
AIX 5L Version 5.2 System User's Guide:
Operating System and Devices,
for more in-depth information on shells.
AIX provides the following shells to use both interactively and with shell scripts:
ksh, ksh93,
and psh The Korn shell is an interactive command interpreter and
command programming language. The Korn shell offers
many of the same features as the Bour ...