On 6/18/19 12:13 PM, Ilkka Virta wrote: > On 18.6. 18:20, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 10:27:48AM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote: >>> $ ksh93 -c 'echo ${.sh.version}' >>> Version ABIJM 93v- 2014-09-29 >>> $ ksh93 -c 'echo $(( 10# ))' >>> ksh93: 10# : arithmetic syntax error >> >> I guess most Linux distributions are not shipping the 2014 version of >> ksh93 yet...? > > Yeah, I had the one from Debian. I'm not even sure what the current version > of ksh is.
It's unclear. When Korn (and Fowler) left at&t, and at&t closed down the ast software repository and it moved to github, the development status got murky. There are people committing to that repository, but I don't believe Korn is involved. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/