4 Dec
2020
4 Dec
'20
3:01 a.m.
On Thu 3 Dec 2020, 20:43 Larry McVoy, <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 09:37:17PM +0100, Niklas
Karlsson wrote:
Yes, that's it. And you'll still find[1] that /bin/sh on (at least?)
Solaris honors that syntax. That's one reason why the git test suite fails
on Solaris without being pushed to use a modern shell implementation.
Thanks
-Ben
[1] At least up to Solaris 10. I've not used newer.
Den tors 3 dec. 2020 kl 21:32 skrev M Douglas
McIlroy <
m.douglas.mcilroy(a)dartmouth.edu>:
vaguely
There's a back story. The paper appears in
the proceedings of a
conference held in London in 1973, a few months after the advent of
pipes. While preparing the presentation, Ken was inspired to invent
and install the pipe operator. His talk wouldn't have been nearly as
compelling had it been expressed in the original pipeline syntax (for
which I take the blame).
Now I'm curious. Is there anywhere I can read about the original pipeline
syntax? I tried searching a bit, but the only mention that was even informative only stated that > was involved.
Wasn't there a version that was
cat whatever ^ wc -l
?