From the korn shell, I keep getting print command not found. When I run print from the shell, it says the same thing. How would I go about fixing this? printf works fine, but for some reason print is not.
This is redhat 5.5 and the ksh is 3.2.25-release.
Thanks
Could we have a little more information, please? "print" is a shell built-in function for ksh, and it should always be there. Here's some information from my own redhat system:
$ cat /etc/redhat\-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation release 6.3 (Santiago)
$ /bin/ksh --version
version sh (AT&T Research) 93t+ 2010-06-21
$ whence -v print
print is a shell builtin
You might also check to see that you have no aliases named "print". I don't have any executables named "print" in /usr/bin, or /bin, etc. You might check whether that is also true for you. Start a new instance of the shell (type "/bin/ksh") and then say
PATH= whence -v print
There's no such version of ksh. This is the version of bash on RHEL 5.5, however, so it looks like you're using bash. Are you looking for the ksh builtin? Use echo or printf instead. Or run ksh (which might not be installed, bash is the de facto standard shell on non-embedded Linux installations).
Here's a guide to translation print options to POSIX-compliant printf.
-e: printf '%b\n'-n: omit \n from the format (printf %b or printf %s)-p: if you need coprocesses, you need ksh-r or -R: printf '%s\n'-s: redirect to the desired output file explicitly, with >> for appending-u: use redirection, e.g. printf … >&3