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.\" $MirOS: src/bin/mksh/mksh.1,v 1.298 2012/11/20 18:07:43 tg Exp $
.\" $MirOS: src/bin/mksh/mksh.1,v 1.299 2012/11/20 18:25:12 tg Exp $
.\" $OpenBSD: ksh.1,v 1.144 2012/07/08 08:13:20 guenther Exp $
.\"-
.\" Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009,
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Its command language is a superset of the
.Xr sh C
shell language and largely compatible to the original Korn shell.
.Pp
.Ss I'm an Android user, so what's mksh?
.Nm mksh
is a
.Ux
shell / command interpreter, similar to
.Nm COMMAND.COM
or
.Nm CMD.EXE ,
which has been included with
.Tn Android Open Source Project
for a while now.
Basically, it's a program that runs in a terminal (console window),
takes user input and runs commands or scripts, which it can also
be asked to do by other programs, even in the background.
Any privilege pop-ups you might be encountering are thus not
.Nm mksh
issues but questions by some other program utilising it.
.Ss Invocation
Most builtins can be called directly, for example if a link points from its
name to the shell; not all make sense, have been tested or work at all though.
.Pp
@ -2776,7 +2793,8 @@ command can be used inside a function to create a local parameter.
Note that
.At
.Nm ksh93
uses static scoping (one global scope, one local scope per function), whereas
uses static scoping (one global scope, one local scope per function)
and allows local variables only on Korn style functions, whereas
.Nm mksh
uses dynamic scoping (nested scopes of varying locality).
Note that special parameters (e.g.\&
@ -2820,7 +2838,7 @@ and remove alias definitions upon encounter, while aliases take precedence
over Korn-style functions.
.El
.Pp
In the future, the following differences will also be added:
In the future, the following differences may also be added:
.Bl -bullet
.It
A separate trap/signal environment will be used during the execution of
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.Xr mknod 8
.Pp
.Pa http://docsrv.sco.com:507/en/man/html.C/sh.C.html
.Pp
.Pa https://www.mirbsd.org/ksh\-chan.htm
.Rs
.%A Morris Bolsky
.%B "The KornShell Command and Programming Language"
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.Ed
.Pp
This document attempts to describe
.Nm mksh\ R40+CVS
.Nm mksh\ R41
and up,
compiled without any options impacting functionality, such as
.Dv MKSH_SMALL ,