6 Jan
2020
6 Jan
'20
9:46 p.m.
Brantley Coile <brantley(a)coraid.com> wrote:
Seems the man page for bash is longer than
Steve's original source:
ehg% pwd
/sys/editions/unix/7e/usr/src/cmd/sh
ehg% wc -l *.[ch] | tail -1
4111 total
And Bash (40 years later) does correspondingly more than the V7 shell did.
I think these comparisons are a red herring.
Would anyone who uses Bash regularly, both interactively and
for scripting, really want to go back to using the V7 sh
for production work?
I certainly would not.
Arnold