^ as pipe

From: Bill Pechter <pechter_at_bg-tc-ppp1645.monmouth.com>
Date: Fri Aug 10 08:34:00 2001

> 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:
>
> [kentborg_at_borg kentborg]$ ls ^ more
> ls: ^: No such file or directory
> ls: more: No such file or directory
> [kentborg_at_borg kentborg]$ sh
> sh-2.04$ ls ^ more
> ls: ^: No such file or directory
> ls: more: No such file or directory
> sh-2.04$ exit
>
> -kb

On RedHat to ls -lsia and see /bin/bash is linked to /bin/sh -- so
you're getting bash.

The sh on FreeBSD (ash based) and pdksh and real AT&T ksh no longer do
it either.

Bill

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