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[ITP] mksh-R31b-1 -- Enhanced version of the Korn shell


Included in Debian stable (etch). This is nice lighweight
almost-bash-like shell.

  http://packages.debian.org/mksh

Jari

sdesc: "Enhanced version of the Korn shell"
ldesc: "A shell which is 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. It includes bug fixes and feature
improvements in order to produce a modern, robust shell good for
interactive and especially script use."
category: Shells
requires: cygwin

a) manual

  wget        \
    http://cygwin.cante.net/mksh/setup.hint \
    http://cygwin.cante.net/mksh/mksh-R31b-1-src.tar.bz2

b) automated with get.sh

  gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 955A92D8

  mkdir mksh ; cd mksh
  rm -f get.sh get.sh.sig
  wget    http://cygwin.cante.net/mksh/get.sh \
          http://cygwin.cante.net/mksh/get.sh.sig &&
  gpg --verify get.sh.sig get.sh &&
  sh get.sh

  cd /usr/src/cygwin-packages/mksh
  less /usr/src/cygwin-packages/mksh/get.sh
  tar -jtvf /usr/src/cygwin-packages/mksh/

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