Strange behaviour of the "cd" command

[Tom H]

On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 1:19 PM, Dr Rainer Woitok
<rainer.woitok at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday, 2017-07-14 23:18:21 -0500, you wrote:
>>
>> For this one, you can install the mksh package
>
> Thanks for pointing out the existance of an "mksh" package for
> Ubuntu. I just installed it, and this of course solves my problem.
>
> But my original question remains: are there any "ksh" maintainers
> on this list? Will this thread ever reach them?

I doubt that any ksh developer (ubuntu or otherwise) is on this list.
You'd be better off filing a bug report - although it's a "universe"
package so it'll have to be forwarded to Debian for something to be
done.

You're better off forgetting about ksh and using mksh. It's actively
maintained and is the default android shell. ksh, on the other hand,
isn't actively maintained:

This is the git repo

https://github.com/att/ksh

pointed at by

http://www.kornshell.com/