Re: ssh and sftp on the i

On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 4:07 PM Peter Dow <petercdow@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Jack,

How numerous are the differences between what a Linux box man page shows
for a command and what the commands in the unix shell used by PASE
actually use? Are "most" the same? Or would I always run into some
difference even in common commands?

It varies. At the extreme, there are three (3) different versions of
iconv floating
around a well-provisioned installation. That can be confusing unless you
really know iconv.

There are two (2) versions of m4, one ancient POSIX and one Gnu. That's
easy, yum installs the "good one" (Gnu).

The PASE grep is the "good" Gnu one but doesn't work with EBCDIC. The QSH grep
does EBCDIC (and you can call it from PASE bash just like any other
program, if you remember where it is).

Other commands are more like their AIX versions than Linux.

So it's tricky. The fun of IBM biz systems is you end up feeling so smart
because you have to know more to get things done than other folks do :)

See you at COMMON?