Re: zsh-ksh-Incompatibility

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

"Dieter Lambrecht" wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> there is an incompatility between Korn-Shell and zsh with emulate ksh:
> 
> 
> A real korn shell script ( e.g. Version M-11/16/88f or Version M-12/28/=
> 93e on AIX,   Version M-11/16/88i on Solaris)
> 
>       #! /bin/ksh
> 
>       u=3Dbzq090
>       echo ~$u
> 
> gives output
> 
>       /home/bzq090
> 
> 
> whereas the same script for zsh in ksh-emulation
>       #! /bin/zsh
>       emulate ksh
> 
>       u=3Dbzq090
>       echo ~$u
> 
> produces
> 
>       ~bzq090.

That's strange, because the shell was altered specifically to do this in
ksh (and more generally, Bourne shell) emulation.  Possibly it's needed
in sh emulation only.

`unsetopt sh_file_expansion' will make it work.

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>                  Software Engineer
CSR Ltd., Science Park, Milton Road,
Cambridge, CB4 0WH, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070


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