Download or read book Learning the Korn Shell written by Bill Rosenblatt and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 1993 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a thorough introduction to UNIX's newest and most powerful command interpreter. Like the C shell and the Bourne shell, the Korn shell is both an interactive environment and a programming language. This book describes how to use both facets: issuing commands and writing efficient shell scripts. In learning one of UNIX's most powerful command execution environments, the Korn shell provides command history editing and other interactive features. It allows the use of environmental variables and options to customize the shell's behavior.