6 Dec
2017
6 Dec
'17
6 p.m.
Paul Ruizendaal <pnr(a)planet.nl> wrote:
Don’t know when or where “>” was first used on Unix
as a prompt character
(on my boxes it still is “$”).
The V7 shell uses it as the secondary prompt, for when a construct
isn't complete:
$ echo 'abc
def'
abc
def
Arnold