- David Korn's official websites (kornshell.com, kornshell.org); not updated in a while.
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"An Introduction to the UNIX Shell",
S. R. Bourne, BSTJ - Vol. 57, No. 6 part 2, pages 1947-1972, 1978. -
IEEE POSIX 1003.2 and ISO 9945-2, "POSIX - Part 2: Shell and Utilities",
(aka "Shell Standard"), IEEE Std 1003.2-1992, ISO/IEC 9945-2, IEEE, 1993.
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"The AWK Programming Language",
Al Aho, Brian Kernighan, and Peter Weinberger, Addison Wesley, 1988. -
"The FIT Programming Language Primer",
Lloyd H. Nakatani and Laurence W. Ruedisueli, TM 1126-920301-03, 1992. -
"Programming perl",
Larry Wall and Randal Schwartz, O'Reilly & Assoc, 1990. -
"Tcl: An Embeddable Command Language",
John K. Ousterhout, Proceedings of the Washington USENIX meeting, pp. 133-146, 1990.
- "Guidelines for writing ksh-93 built-in commands"
by David G. Korn
- "SFIO: Safe/Fast String/File IO",
by David Korn and Kiem-Phong Vo in the proc. of the Summer ’91 Usenix Conference