best shell interface to work in SAP ??

[kishore_11_1]

I am new to unix and i want to know what is the best shell interface to work in SAP

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

Since you are working in an HP-UX environment, I'd use the standard, default HP-UX shell. This is a POSIX shell available as '/usr/bin/sh'. This shell is based on the Korn ('ksh') shell.

For reference, see the 'sh-posix(1)' manpages.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Pete Randall]

Before all the linux zealots chime in with their votes for the bash shell, let me second Jim's vote for the posix shell.


Pete

[Michael Sillers]

I'm putting in my vote for POSIX as well. It works for all of our needs.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi (again):

Let me add one more important point. The POSIX shell for non-root users is compiled with dynamic libraries that live in '/usr'. This reduces the memory footprint of the shell slightly since multiple instantiations can share objects.

A statically-linked version of this shell resides in '/sbin' and is the *only* shell the root account should declare as its default (in '/etc/passwd'). The value of this difference is seen when '/usr' isn't mounted' as for example, in single-user mode.

Other shells (e.g. '/usr/bin/ksh', '/usr/dt/bin/dtksh', '/usr/bin/csh', etc.) need dynamic library support.

While your SAP database will be running when '/usr' is mounted, there is no reason (IMO) to not use the default, standard Posix shell. After all, you will then be familiar with its features for all of HP-UX.

Regards!

...JRF...

[TwoProc]

Bash. I like it because it gave me back !history editing like in csh, and I can still have vi command line editing like ksh (set -o vi). The only weakness in bash that I miss from ksh is the shortcuts for the "cd" command.
Like:
$>pwd
/d105a
$>cd a b
$> pwd
/d105b

In bash, I miss the above from ksh, other than that, I'm happier with bash.

[singh sanjeev]

My vote is for .

/usr/bin/ksh nad /usr/bin/csh

as script of SAP ,need above two shell, as in my env we have set /usr/bin/csh.

check for SAP doc which is recommended one.