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I have some questions / confusion concerning shells. I know that at different companies I have worked they have allowed different shells - korn, bash, bourne, etc.  Is there a standard for invoking each of these shells or is that defined by the admin within each system? !sh, !ksh, !bsh. 

Is there any documentation on how to set these up? A way to know which shells are being invoked by the commands?  And a way to update paramaters within each?

Thank you for your time,

Kathleen



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kathleen hambrick
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I have some questions / confusion concerning shells. I know that at different companies I have worked they have allowed different shells - korn, bash, bourne, etc.  Is there a standard for invoking each of these shells or is that defined by the admin within each system? !sh, !ksh, !bsh. 

Is there any documentation on how to set these up? A way to know which shells are being invoked by the commands?  And a way to update paramaters within each?

Thank you for your time,

Kathleen



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kathleen hambrick
Programmer
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Hi Kathleen,

On UniVerse, I know of only two shell invocations, "sh" for Unix and
linux and "dos" for windows.  I'm uncertain on UniData.

Dale

I have some questions / confusion concerning shells. I know that at different companies I have worked they have allowed different shells - korn, bash, bourne, etc.  Is there a standard for invoking each of these shells or is that defined by the admin within each system? !sh, !ksh, !bsh. 

Is there any documentation on how to set these up? A way to know which shells are being invoked by the commands?  And a way to update paramaters within each?

Thank you for your time,

Kathleen



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kathleen hambrick
Programmer
Rocket Forum Shared Account
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Hi Kathleen!

I'm not 100% sure what you're asking, but I'll assuming you're talking about invoking unix shells from within BASIC programs or some other way from within U2 (PROC, TCL, etc.).

We're running UniVerse. In the VOC there are two entries - SH and CSH. SH invokes the bourne shell and CHS invokes C-shell. If you're running UniVerse, you could probably look at those and create others to invoke any of the other shells.

Brian