I thought the same thing as I was initially working on an older server and
version of AIX, but I tried it on freshly installed 7.1 server and it did
the same thing.
I can say this is the first time I have ever tried to read stdout
redirected to stdin with strings on AIX. That works by default in Linux,
but there must be some difference in AIX. The man pages for both read the
same. I also have a friend that works in the financial services sector and
he is running into the same thing. Without opening a case with IBM I can't
say for sure what the difference is.
I had already ran through the test you proposed before sending this to the
mailing list, and had the same questions as you did.
Thanks
On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 4:20 PM, John Horne <john.ho...@plymouth.ac.uk>wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-11-22 at 22:00 +0000, John Horne wrote:
>
> >
> > I am, however, a bit curious as to why AIX doesn't work with this test.
> > The test itself is something like: echo "abc" | strings
> > It should just echo what it is passed (the test being that if it doesn't
> > then the 'strings' command itself could be corrupt).
> >
> Actually 'abc' was a bad example as the strings command expects at least
> 4 characters. So maybe something like: echo "abcdefghij" | strings
> would be better.
>
>
>
> John.
>
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