[TUHS] sh: cmd | >file
arnold at skeeve.com
arnold at skeeve.com
Tue Jan 7 01:46:06 AEST 2020
Brantley Coile <brantley at coraid.com> wrote:
> Seems the man page for bash is longer than Steve's original source:
>
> ehg% pwd
> /sys/editions/unix/7e/usr/src/cmd/sh
> ehg% wc -l *.[ch] | tail -1
> 4111 total
And Bash (40 years later) does correspondingly more than the V7 shell did.
I think these comparisons are a red herring.
Would anyone who uses Bash regularly, both interactively and
for scripting, really want to go back to using the V7 sh
for production work?
I certainly would not.
Arnold
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