[TUHS] sh: cmd | >file

[Chet Ramey]

On 1/5/20 4:21 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Jan 2020, Chet Ramey wrote:
> 
>>> Which reminds me: which Shell introduced "#" as a true comment?
>>
>> Define "true comment." The v7 shell had `#' as the comment character, but
>> it only worked when in non-interactive shells. I think it was the Sys III
>> shell that made it work when the shell was interactive.
> 
> Yes, that's what I meant.

It was the Sys III shell; I have a v7 shell that's apparently not the
original.


> I never did catch up with all the options on the various shells; I just
> stick with the defaults in general.  Eg:
> 
>      aneurin% man bash | wc -l
>      5947

$ wc -l doc/bash.0
     6206 doc/bash.0

I still get reports that things are not documented in sufficient detail.


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