Re: KORN Shell ?????

I have to agree with Carlton about this, on a rare occasion. :-) As far as UNIX is concerned the Korn shell ( ksh ) is really the best one usually found on the commercial UNIXes. If you want a DOS-like shell, similar to what you find on Windows machines, you might want to check out Linux, which has the bash and other shells, each with their own best features, many of them modeled after the Korn and DOS shells. BTW, the Korn shell was invented by Dr. Korn, of ATT. Recently, supposedly at a Microsoft seminar, a Microsoft spokesman told an audience about the latest NT having a Korn shell as part of the operating system. One of the people in the audience complained that it wasn't the standard Korn shell, to which the Microsoft spokesman insisted that it was. Unknown to the spokesman, the guy complaining was Dr. Korn. :-) Tim "Hayward, Kevin" wrote: > > Hello Fellow Informix DBA's > > Does anyone out there have experience with KORN shell? I just > purchased a book (Administering Informix on Windows NT) by Carlton Doe > who seems to think that KORN shell is the best thing since bottled > water. I have a basic objection to having to learn Unix commands to run > Informix administrative scripts on my NT box. Most of the examples in > his book I have been able to do from the SQL editor going against the > sysmaster tables. There are some items that I would like to track that > he makes mention of I just don't know that I want to do it with KORN > shell. Does anyone else know of something else that is less cryptic to > do the same thing? > > Thank You in advance > Kevin Hayward > hayward_ke@leg.wa.gov -- - -- --- Tim Schaefer ---- tschaefe@mindspring.com --- http://www.inxutil.com -- -

Get perl for NT or use Cygnus tools (gawk, other shells) or use SPL (Stored Procedure Language) that comes with the Informix. You can also use DOS which was the only script that came with NT until recently. DOS .bat scripts are not that different (cryptic, arbitrary) than other shells except it is crude and lacks most features of a useful scripting language. Which is why NT now has the GNU-Unix tools. -- --------------------------------------------------------- Steven Hauser email: hause011@tc.umn.edu URL: http://www.tc.umn.edu/~hause011 ---------------------------------------------------------