[TUHS] Unix taste

Noel Chiappa jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Fri Aug 8 13:27:50 AEST 2014


    > From: Doug McIlroy <doug at cs.dartmouth.edu>

    > Yet a quoted "wc -l" as a bare command or (I suspect) as the first
    > command in a pipeline would lead to "command not found".

I don't know about earlier versions of Unix, but FWLIW on V6 it does indeed
barf in both of these cases (just tried it).

	Noel



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