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Re: <> redirection and notations

To: jeremy@sw.oz.au
Subject: Re: <> redirection and notations
From: Chet Ramey <chet@odin.INS.CWRU.Edu>
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1993 10:41:24 -0400
Cc: peter@robots.ox.ac.uk, haahr@mv.us.adobe.com, es@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
In-reply-to: Message from jeremy@sw.oz.au of Sun, 4 Apr 1993 23:01:00 -0400 (id <9304050301.AA28083@chao.sw.oz.au>)
Read-receipt-to: chet@po.CWRU.Edu
Reply-to: chet@po.CWRU.Edu

> With regard to the sh lookalike competition, is "<>" needed?  Ignoring
> ksh and bash, how many /bin/sh like shells have "<>"?  Certainly /bin/sh
> here doesn't on any of the machines I tried.

It has been present in /bin/sh, albeit undocumented, since version 7.

--
``The ballpark is quiet now, save for the sound of droplets landing.  That
  is as it should be.  For today there are two fewer boys of summer.''

Chet Ramey, Case Western Reserve University	Internet: chet@po.CWRU.Edu

References:
- Re: <> redirection and notations
  - From: jeremy@sw.oz.au (Jeremy Fitzhardinge)

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