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Package: mksh (38.3-1)

enhanced version of the Korn shell

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. mksh has UTF-8 support (e.g. in the emacs command line editing mode); R38c corresponds to OpenBSD 4.5-current ksh (without GNU bash-like $PS1 and fancy character classes). The code has throughoutly been 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.

The mksh-static binary is a version of mksh, linked against dietlibc (if dietlibc exists for that Debian architecture), and optimised for small code size, for example for use on initrd or initramfs images, installation or rescue systems.

A sample ~/.mkshrc is included in /usr/share/doc/mksh/examples and provided as /etc/skel/.mkshrc conffile.

Tags: System Administration: System Boot, System Installation, Login, Software Development: Interpreter, POSIX shell, Implemented in: C, User Interface: Command Line, Command Shell, Made Of: Manuals in Nroff Format, Role: Program, Scope: Application, Application Suite: BSD, Purpose: Login, World Wide Web: CGI, Works with: People, Running Programs, Source Code, Text, Unicode, Supports Format: Plain Text

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    or debconf-2.0
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  • dep: debconf (>= 1.4.69)
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    or cdebconf (>= 0.39)
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  • dep: libbsd0 (>= 0.0)
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  • dep: libc0.1 (>= 2.4) [kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386]
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  • dep: libc0.3 (>= 2.9) [hurd-i386]
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    also a virtual package provided by libc0.3-udeb
  • dep: libc6 (>= 2.3.3) [hppa, mips, mipsel]
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    also a virtual package provided by libc6-udeb
    dep: libc6 (>= 2.4) [amd64, armel, i386, powerpc, s390]
    dep: libc6 (>= 2.5) [avr32]
    dep: libc6 (>= 2.5-5) [m68k]
    dep: libc6 (>= 2.6) [sparc]
  • dep: libc6.1 (>= 2.3.3) [alpha, ia64]
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  • dep: libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1) [armel]
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  • sug: ed
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Architecture Package Size Installed Size Files
alpha 329.1 kB692 kB [list of files]
amd64 304.5 kB548 kB [list of files]
armel 531.8 kB1088 kB [list of files]
avr32 (unofficial port) 572.5 kB952 kB [list of files]
hppa 311.3 kB720 kB [list of files]
hurd-i386 606.4 kB1316 kB [list of files]
i386 275.9 kB544 kB [list of files]
ia64 439.9 kB1112 kB [list of files]
kfreebsd-amd64 551.1 kB1158 kB [list of files]
kfreebsd-i386 508.6 kB1046 kB [list of files]
m68k (unofficial port) 445.5 kB924 kB [list of files]
mips 297.3 kB692 kB [list of files]
mipsel 298.3 kB692 kB [list of files]
powerpc 299.3 kB628 kB [list of files]
s390 576.9 kB1188 kB [list of files]
sparc 289.5 kB604 kB [list of files]