[TUHS] sh: cmd | >file

[arnold at skeeve.com]

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