flavours of shell - what is there?

[Michael Greim]

In article <4278 at ecs.soton.ac.uk>, tjc at ecs.soton.ac.uk (Tim Chown) writes:
= I realise this is a bit of an open question, but ...
= 
= I would be very grateful for any pointers or hints as to
= where I can find out what different shells exist, and what 
= their various pros and cons are.
= 
= The ones I know of are simply:
= 	sh	 csh	 bash	 ksh
= 
= Are there others?  Where are they principally available from?
= (I've had difficulty locating ksh for SunOS Unix - is it restricted?)
= 

I am coming a little bit late, but nobody so far has mentioned "yas".
I don't know where I got it from, most likely it was published in one
of the source groups. The author, Dave Clemans, claims that "yas" is
near enough to "ksh" to run most "ksh" scripts transparently.

"ash" is quite nice too, if the author could only write some more
documentation :-)

	-mg
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