an odd question

From: Dan Wright <dtwright_at_uiuc.edu>
Date: Fri Aug 10 08:32:49 2001

Kent Borg said:
> On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 08:34:24AM +0000, Pete Turnbull wrote:
> > ^ as a pipe still works in 'sh' (Bourne shell) but not in 'ksh' (Korn
> > shell). I don't know about 'bash'.
>
> Cool! ...but it doesn't work for me on a Red Hat 7.0 machine:

That's 'cause linux systems (well, most; I know redhat does for sure) use
"bash" as "sh".

However, it doesn't work on IRIX 6.5.10 either... though it DOES work on
solaris 8. huh...

- Dan Wright
(dtwright_at_uiuc.edu)
(http://www.uiuc.edu/~dtwright)

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