On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 1:04 AM, Ben Walton <[email protected]> wrote: > I've discovered an interesting bit of solaris archaeology today and I > wanted to ask those with longer solaris memory why such a thing is > still supported. > > Long before I ever encountered a shell, ^ was the symbol used to > separate commands in a pipeline. It seems that solaris' /bin/sh is > still allowing this in some cases.
It hit me today when I was building sharutils: they have an unquoted caret in a /bin/sh script[1]. Thanks for this e-mail Ben, remembering it sped up solving the problem for me. Maciej [1] https://gar.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gar/csw/mgar/pkg/sharutils/trunk/files/sun-sed.patch _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
