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ksh is a superset of Bourne shell

https://www.oilshell.org/archive/ksh-usenix.pdf

bash implemented essentially all Bourne shell features a long time ago -- and for the last decade+, and currently, it's implementing ksh features

I'm not sure why it's hard to hold those 2 ideas in your head at the same time



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