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Old 6th May 2008
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Ok i don't know if this is the wisest decision so i am gonna ask your opinion about which shell do you use for scripting?
Korn was an attempt to integrate both the Bourne and C shells (it's debatable as to how successful that attempt has been). But, I find 9 times out of 10, if it works in Bourne, it'll work in Korn. One time, I had to translate a Bourne script to Korn and the only thing I had to change was the line that points to the shell from #! /bin/sh to #! /bin/ksh.

Many do use Korn for scripting now, I think it is number 2 or 3 after Bash - but Bash is still the undisputed king (cf. LinuxQuestions 2007 Member Choice Awards).

Like corey_james said, for ultimate portability, go with Bourne.

But, learning Korn is still a good skill to have, and if you know Korn or Bash, you know about 90% of the other respective language.
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