[TUHS] Pipes (was Re: After 50 years, what has the Impact of Unix been?)

Steve Nickolas usotsuki at buric.co
Fri Dec 6 12:05:51 AEST 2024


On Thu, 5 Dec 2024, Greg A. Woods wrote:

> The Wikipedia entry for "Process substitution" says:
>
> 	Process substitution was available as a compile-time option for
> 	ksh88, the 1988 version of the KornShell from Bell Labs.  The rc
> 	shell provides the feature as "pipeline branching" in Version 10
> 	Unix, released in 1990.
>
> So, if we believe that then indeed ksh88 pioneered process substitution.

Confirming that ksh88d and ksh88i support <(command) at least.

-uso.


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