[TUHS] sh: cmd | >file

Steffen Nurpmeso steffen at sdaoden.eu
Sun Jan 5 06:41:17 AEST 2020


Sven Mascheck via TUHS wrote in <20200104005350.GA156384 at lisa.in-ulm.de>:
 |On Fri, Jan 03, 2020 at 06:18:00PM +0100, markus schnalke wrote:
 |> [2020-01-03 11:03] "Brian Zick" <brian at zick.io>
 |>> I'm curious to know if you have a script you used to prove these \
 |>> correct?
 |> 
 |> We have to wait for Sven Mascheck to answer this question. He tested
 |> the different shells.
 |
 |I guess Brian meant Steffen. I have no idea what Steffen meant with "proved
 |correct".

It was a citation, maybe too sloppy.

 |(and I believe Gunnar was not motivated to guarantee his heirloom port
 |to compete in production environments against modern shell variants with
 |continued maintenance, yet tried hard that time to find and fix as \
 |many bugs
 |as possible; I tried to help him a little bit that time. Just consider how

That is what "is flowing out behind me", overall.

 |much still had been fixed by Sun even after their SVR4 sh. more corner case
 |bugs to be expected...)

I did not throw doubt on this.  I think he achieved a lot in
Heirloom tools and especially roff in only four years i think,
starting in 2004.  The sh has this ": > FILE" bug, which sometimes
shows up.

--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)


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