KornShell

KornShell
Original authorDavid Korn
Initial release1983 (1983)
Final release
93u+ / August 1, 2012 (2012-08-01)
Preview release
93v- / December 24, 2014 (2014-12-24)
Written inC
Operating systemUnix and Unix-like (e.g. Linux and macOS; also works in Windows 10)
Available inEnglish
TypeUnix shell
License
Websitekornshell.com
Repositorygithub.com/att/ast
ksh2020
DevelopersKurtis Rader, Siteshwar Vashisht, community
Final release
2020 / October 10, 2019 (2019-10-10)
Predecessor93v-
LicenseEclipse Public License
Websitekornshell.com 
Repositorygithub.com/ksh2020/ksh
ksh93u+m
DevelopersMartijn Dekker, Johnothan King, hyenias
Stable release
1.0.10 / August 2, 2024 (2024-08-02)
Predecessor93u+
LicenseEclipse Public License
Websitegithub.com/ksh93/ksh/wiki
Repositorygithub.com/ksh93/ksh

KornShell (ksh) is a Unix shell which was developed by David Korn at Bell Labs in the early 1980s and announced at USENIX on July 14, 1983. The initial development was based on Bourne shell source code. Other early contributors were Bell Labs developers Mike Veach and Pat Sullivan, who wrote the Emacs and vi-style line editing modes' code, respectively. KornShell is backward-compatible with the Bourne shell and includes many features of the C shell, inspired by the requests of Bell Labs users.