Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1998 21:05:12 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, "John W. DeBoskey" <jwd@unx.sas.com> Cc: Brian Feldman <green@zone.syracuse.net>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Changing sh for compatibility sake Message-ID: <19981101210512.A21213@emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <199811012348.XAA29687@woof.lan.awfulhak.org>; from "Brian Somers" on Sun Nov 1 23:48:28 GMT 1998 References: <199811011656.LAA14169@bb01f39.unx.sas.com> <199811012348.XAA29687@woof.lan.awfulhak.org>
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In the last episode (Nov 01), Brian Somers said: > The *only* shell I've ever seen that does this is the original ksh. > I think it's a *great* feature, but it's also non-standard. With it, > you can also > > echo hello there | read a b > > and get $a and $b back. Certainly, any version of sh, ash, zsh, bash > and pdksh that I've seen execute everything in the pipe in a subshell. ? I thought standard procedure was to execute the last command in a pipe in the parent shell. Your command runs fine on zsh and bash (not ash though). -Dan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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