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Re: BUG in /bin/bash
From: owner-bugtraq () NETSPACE ORG (Alan Cox)
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 21:26:42 -0400
i tried it on my RS/6Ks w/ ksh. it seems to work on AIX 3.5.5.[01] but they fixed it on 4.1.4. Orphy!:-) On Fri, 13 Sep 1996, Yiorgos Adamopoulos wrote:
That reminds me of a similar "little-known feature" on SunOS and Solaris, where /bin/sh interprets '^' as a synonym for '|' : $ sh -c 'echo blah ^ cat' blahThis archaic compatibility feature is not only of SunOS/Solaris but also of Ultrix4.3A (both sh and sh5) and HP-UX 9.05. Ksh, pdksh and /bin/posix/sh do not support this. -Yiorgos. Y.Adamopoulos () noc ntua gr
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- Re: BUG in /bin/bash Roger Espel Llima (Sep 13)
- Re: BUG in /bin/bash Yiorgos Adamopoulos (Sep 13)
- Re: BUG in /bin/bash Julian Assange (Sep 13)
- Re: BUG in /bin/bash Alan Cox (Sep 14)
- Re: BUG in /bin/bash Aggelos P. Varvitsiotis (Sep 16)
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- Re: BUG in /bin/bash Eugene Bradley (Sep 13)
- Re: BUG in /bin/bash Dan Stromberg (Sep 14)
- Re: BUG in /bin/bash Alan Cox (Sep 17)
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