ibara/oksh
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Portable OpenBSD ksh, based on the Public Domain Korn Shell (pdksh).
11 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 0 stories, 11 comments · first 2019-01-08 · latest 2026-03-17
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…you are looking for. My recommendation for learning "how is X done in a shell" is the OpenBSD ksh: https://github.com/ibara/oksh It's what they use for /bin/sh, it has everything that a complete shell needs (including a mechanism for…
comment by tame3902 · 2026-03-17 · in Building a Shell -
…OpenBSD switched their default shell to their own pdksh-derivative known as oksh. https://github.com/ibara/oksh There was an effort to (re)start ksh93 development, but AT&T halted this effort. The bugfixes from the failed effort have moved
comment by chasil · 2024-07-24 · in Pnut: A C to POSIX shell compiler you can trust -
…https://mandoc.bsd.lv/ ) bearssl instead of openssl ( https://bearssl.org/ ) oksh instead of bash ( https://github.com/ibara/oksh ) sdhcp instead of dhclient or dhcpcd ( https://core.suckless.org/sdhcp/ ) vis instead of vim or emacs (…
comment by peter_d_sherman · 2024-01-26 · in Oasis – a small, statically-linked Linux system -
…site has cert problems] OpenBSD also forked oksh from pdksh. This is certainly well-maintained. https://github.com/ibara/oksh
comment by chasil · 2024-01-16 · in Faster shell startup with shell switching -
…there are at least two maintained ports of OpenBSD ksh, https://github.com/dimkr/loksh (Linux) and https://github.com/ibara/oksh (cross-platform). There are also at least two of doas, https://github.com/slicer69/doas and…
comment by networked · 2023-08-27 · in Portable OpenBSD vi for Unix systems -
…us who like the openbsd ksh(all two of us) which is derived from pdksh. there is the project oksh. https://github.com/ibara/oksh I don't know if this is helpful or just annoying unsolicited "advice"
comment by somat · 2022-11-10 · in Xterm code execution via font ops -
...and that ksh descended from pdksh, and is distributed as the oksh portable project here: https://github.com/ibara/oksh The MirBSD Korn Shell also descended from pdksh, and it can be found here: http://www.mirbsd.org/mksh.htm I don't…
comment by chasil · 2021-10-14 · in OpenBSD 7.0 -
…The latest version which reflects the shell as available in OpenBSD 6.9 was released 3 days ago. https://github.com/ibara/oksh
comment by tssva · 2021-05-03 · in ShellCheck: Finds bugs in your shell scripts -
As an alternative, as mentioned already in response to another comment is oksh ( https://github.com/ibara/oksh ), a portable version of OpenBSD's pdksh. It's in the same Bourne shell lineage as bash but is lighter and the completion is…
comment by roryrjb · 2019-10-06 · in How Bash Completion Works -
…a lot of common software. One specific solution to your problem, well a suggestion is to use oksh ( https://github.com/ibara/oksh ) a portable version of pdksh (public domain Korn shell) that comes from OpenBSD. The reason why I recommend…
comment by roryrjb · 2019-10-06 · in How Bash Completion Works -
…( https://github.com/att/ast ), pdksh from OpenBSD (of which there is a portable version here: https://github.com/ibara/oksh ) and MirBSD ksh ( https://www.mirbsd.org/mksh.htm ). Otherwise of interest is mrsh:…
comment by roryrjb · 2019-01-08 · in Bash 5.0 released