HI All,

I am new to Linux environment.

We are in the process of migrating the Unix commands/scripts to the new Linux environment. As far as I know, there won't be any difference between the Unix and Linux environment except the shell name.

Please let me know, if there are any syntax/behaviour difference in Unix and in Linux.

Any checklist for conversion of Unix to Linux.

Any info will be helpful.

Regards,
Kumar

I have never gone from AIX to Linux, but I have gone from Solaris to Linux as well as BSD to Linux.

The main thing would be what you mentioned: the shell the scripts are using. Obviously different shells are going to treat things a lot differently; trying to assign a variable like tcsh does, in BASH, is not going to really work well for you. So I would definitely invoke the same (or most similar) shell as possible, when possible.

Another thing that always gets me when porting scripts are the command's flags. I would double check each command that you use with its equivalent in the GNU or BSD version, and make sure -r (for example) really does exist and does the same thing as what it did on the AIX version.

And finally, the OUTPUT of a command could be surprising. If the AIX version spits one thing out, and your script parses based on that expectation (like by fields or bytes) then you might find yourself getting the wrong data because the Linux version returns info in a different format.

Oh and also syntax. Doesn't happen often, but for more complex things like sed vs gsed or gawk vs nawk or grep, it can sometimes be really severe.

So basically, everything. Check through it all, command by command.

That's all I can think of off the top of my head.

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There are MANY differences, and AIX is not really Unix, except in name. There is much in common, but it's IBM's own brand, that ONLY runs on IBM equipment. Solaris is much closer to Linux, but there are going to be differences.
There are lots, depending on the command(s) and how you call them. There is no 'checklist'. If you have scripts to migrate, copy them over one at a time, and RUN THEM. See where they fail, look at the lines/commands, then modify them one at a time until you get the desired results.

There are no easy answers.

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my frustration with going between aix and linux is that the gnu version of many standard programs (like grep sed awk ...) have more functionality than their unix equivalent.

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Linux normally uses bash, although I've met one distro that defaults to zsh, but it's not fussy. I presume you use the Korn shell on AIX — if so, you can use the Linux implementation.

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