From: Dave Lukes <davel@anvil.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] echo -n
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 14:59:11 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4561C2BF.5010901@anvil.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200611201441.aa18804@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
$ uname -a
SunOS mother 5.6 Generic_105181-35 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-250
$ sh -c 'echo -n | wc'
1 1 3
$ bash -c 'echo -n | wc'
0 0 0
$
<snigger/>
DaveL
John Stalker wrote:
> UNIX variants seem to vary (yes, I know, that's why they are called
> variants) in their behaviour. On FreeBSD and NetBSD echo -n | wc
> produces 0 0 0, agreeing with my intuition and the plan9 behaviour.
> On Solaris, on the other hand, echo -n | wc produces 1 1 3.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-20 14:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-20 8:40 arisawa
2006-11-20 9:45 ` Martin Neubauer
2006-11-20 10:42 ` lucio
2006-11-20 17:35 ` maht
2006-11-20 12:46 ` Russ Cox
2006-11-20 14:41 ` John Stalker
2006-11-20 14:59 ` Dave Lukes [this message]
2006-11-20 14:59 ` Axel Belinfante
2006-11-20 15:34 ` ron minnich
2006-11-20 15:43 ` erik quanstrom
2006-11-20 16:37 ` Joel Salomon
2006-11-20 18:49 ` Russ Cox
2006-11-20 19:16 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-11-20 19:57 ` Joel Salomon
2006-11-20 20:18 ` Federico Benavento
2006-11-20 20:38 ` Russ Cox
2006-11-20 21:00 ` Joel Salomon
2006-11-20 21:05 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-11-20 21:55 ` Russ Cox
2006-11-20 22:11 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-11-20 22:24 ` Martin Neubauer
2006-11-20 23:14 ` Gorka guardiola
2006-11-20 23:22 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-11-20 23:57 ` Gorka guardiola
2006-11-21 3:24 ` lucio
2006-11-20 19:32 ` Joel Salomon
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