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Project Summary

mksh is the MirBSD Korn Shell, largely similar to the original AT&T ksh, pdksh’s actively developed successor, portable. It includes bug fixes and improvements in order to produce a modern, robust shell good for interactive and especially script use. It has UTF-8 support and extended compatibility to other modern shells.

mksh compiles on: MirOS gcc3+pcc+SUNWcc, MidnightBSD gcc3+pcc; BSD/OS gcc1+2; DragonFly,Free/Net/OpenBSD gcc3+4; AIX gcc4+xlC9; DEC OSF/1 v2,ULTRIX 4.5 MIPS, Tru64 4/5.1 CompaqC+gcc2; HP-UX PA-RISC/IA64 gcc3+aCC; IRIX gcc3+MIPSpro; MacOSX,iPhone gcc3/4+llvm-gcc; QNX; Solaris 8/10 gcc3+SUNWcc; Interix gcc+msc; Cygwin gcc; UWIN-NT dmc+msc+Borland; GNU/Linux/kFreeBSD/HURD dietlibc+libc5+µClibc gcc2/3/4+icc+llvm-gcc+nwcc+tcc+TenDRA+llvm-clang; Haiku gcc; Minix3; Android; …

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bourneshell bsd cgi cli command-line commandline commandlineinterface commandlineinterpreter commandlinetool commandlineutilities commandprompt console cross-platform development freewrt kornshell ksh mirbsd mksh openbsd openssh pdksh portable posix programming shell shellcode shellcore shells shellscripting sysadmin system system_shells tty unicode unix utf-8 utilities

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C
59%
Perl
24%
shell script
12%
2 Other
5%

30 Day Summary

Jun 17 2025 — Jul 17 2025

12 Month Summary

Jul 17 2024 — Jul 17 2025
  • 86 Commits
    Down -281 (76%) from previous 12 months
  • 3 Contributors
    Down 0 (0%) from previous 12 months

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