Shell differences HPUX / SOLARIS

[ESPINEL Pascal]

HI,

What is the base shell on HP servers ( bourne, korn or Posix ) ??
We have a SUN server and i would like to have the same shell on it,so that my scripts and commands ( originaly on HP ) can work.

ex : ll or Esc - for history commands

Thank's

[Pete Randall]

Posix would be your best bet.

Pete

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

The Posix shell is the default shell for HP-UX and is found as '/sbin/sh' (staticly linked) or '/usr/bin/sh' (dynamically linked).

See 'man sh' for more information.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Martin Johnson]

You can use the same shell in both OSs if you are a normal user. You cannot use the same shell has root. Trying to do so will make one OS or the other unbootable.

HTH
Marty

[Wodisch]

Hi,

for users you can use the korn shell on both systems, but you still see some differences...
e.g. on HP-UX you complete filenames with ESC ESC, but on Solaris you'll have to type ESC \ or even ESC *

Sorry,
Wodisch

[Bill Hassell · Accepted solution]

Actually, Solaris's default shell is Bourne if I remember correctly and is called /usr/bin/sh. In HP-UX, /usr/bin/sh is the POSIX shell and (AFAIK) does not exist on Solaris. The POSIX shell from HP is an almost proper superset of Korn (ksh) which is a Posix-compliant shell, just like Bash. If you want the Bourne shell in HP-UX, it's located at /usr/old/bin/sh (but use of the Bourne shell today is deprecated)

The the vast majority of scripting requirements, the POSIX shell in HP-UX is virtually identical to ksh. But since Solaris's sh is not Posix compliant, I would use /usr/bin/ksh and it will run on both. (note that like HP-UX, Solaris no longer has /bin, it is a link to /usr/bin).