At the moment, it has most of the ksh88 features, not much of the ksh93 features, and a number of its own features. pdksh was initially created by Eric Gisin using Charles Forsyth's public domain V7 shell as a base as well as parts of the BRL shell. Since then a number of people have maintained and contributed to it
At the moment, it has most of the ksh88 features, not much of the ksh93 features, and a number of its own features. pdksh was initially created by Eric Gisin using Charles Forsyth's public domain V7 shell as a base as well as parts of the BRL shell. Since then a number of people have maintained and contributed to it
To install pdksh, run the following command in macOS terminal (Applications->Utilities->Terminal)
sudo port install pdksh
To see what files were installed by pdksh, run:
port contents pdksh
To later upgrade pdksh, run:
sudo port selfupdate && sudo port upgrade pdksh
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