On 11/18/21 2:03 PM, arnold(a)skeeve.com wrote:
Also remember that there were plenty of people who
were happy working
with the shell and the Unix toolkit as-is.
I would argue that this functionality gap is what inspired David Korn to
put as much into ksh as he did. The first `public' version of ksh was
released in 1983.
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