11 Jul
2016
11 Jul
'16
3:10 a.m.
On Sat, Jul 09, 2016 at 09:41:08PM -0400, Norman Wilson wrote:
I still habitually quote shell arguments containing
^,
even though I haven't used a shell that required that
since late 1984 (Rob had removed the special meaning
from /bin/sh before I arrived at Bell Labs).
The 8th ed shell, derived from SVR2. It underwent some
cleanup and got history,
http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/bourne/#version8
before rc came later.
The 8th ed changes didn't make it into SVR3, I wonder why.