[TUHS] [tuhs] The Unix shell: a 50-year view

[Chet Ramey]

On 7/6/21 8:53 PM, Nevin Liber wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 6, 2021 at 9:12 AM Chet Ramey <chet.ramey at case.edu 
> <mailto:chet.ramey at case.edu>> wrote:
> 
>     On 7/6/21 1:10 AM, Nevin Liber wrote:
> 
>      > head isn't needed because we can already do it with the command line
>      > options for sed.  That's the Unix way.
> 
>     Except, in this case, `head' came first.
> 
> 
> While I may be mis-remembering, IIRC that wasn't true in System V Unix from 
> AT&T (which is where I was first exposed to it).

This came up on the list last week. Joy wrote `head' while using 6th
Edition systems at Berkeley; `sed' first appeared in the 7th Edition.


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