an odd question

From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Fri Aug 10 18:52:19 2001

On Aug 10, 8:32, Dan Wright wrote:
> 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...

>From IRIX 6.5, 'sh' is actually 'ksh' so it's not Bourne shell either.

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York
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