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Does anyone know of any migration tool or script that will assist me converting perl and korn shell scripts built on Solaris to Linux (Redhat)? Something that identifies path. binary or syntax issues?
Not off the top of my head. However, if your interest is really in paths it might be more to the point to simply insure the environments have the correct PATH variables set.
Also a few wrinkles:
Solaris has both Berkley (ucb) and System V versions of many commands. You'd need to know which you were using as the former weren't typically Posix compliant.
There are differences between the flags allowed on many commands. Typically the Linux versions have more functionality. Often enough the flag you use on Solaris may not exist on Linux or may have a completely different purpose.
Linux doesn't use ksh by default - the preferred shell is bash which is "Borne Again Shell". Many Korn Shell scripts will run in this but you have to change the interpreter line.
There is ksh available for RedHat. For RHEL3 and RHEL4 it is the pdksh package which provides ksh but that is not Posix compliant. For RHEL5 there is a Posix compliant ksh available. You'll have to remember to load it.
There are differences between those two ksh versions. Just recently I had to change the way I was escaping things in a script I'd originally written on RHEL3 and used on RHEL4 when I had to port it to RHEL5.
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