What Is POSIX Shell?

by on June 17, 2004 · 0 comments· last updated at June 17, 2009

What is POSIX Shell under UNIX / Linux operating systems?

POSIX Shell is based on the standard defined in Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) - IEEE P1003.2.

The POSIX shell is implemented for many UNIX like operating systems.

The POSIX standard is designed to be used by both application programmers and system administrators.

Most of the POSIX Shell features are similar to the Korn Shell.



You should follow me on twitter here or grab rss feed to keep track of new changes.

Featured Articles:

{ 0 comments… add one now }

Leave a Comment

You can use these HTML tags and attributes for your code and commands: <strong> <em> <ol> <li> <u> <ul> <kbd> <blockquote> <pre> <a href="" title="">

Tagged as: , , , , , , , , , , ,

Previous Faq:

Next Faq: