6 Dec
2024
6 Dec
'24
8:05 a.m.
On Thu, 5 Dec 2024, Greg A. Woods wrote:
The Wikipedia entry for "Process
substitution" says:
Process substitution was available as a compile-time option for
ksh88, the 1988 version of the KornShell from Bell Labs. The rc
shell provides the feature as "pipeline branching" in Version 10
Unix, released in 1990.
So, if we believe that then indeed ksh88 pioneered process substitution.
Confirming that ksh88d and ksh88i support <(command) at least.
-uso.