From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: michael@kjorling.se (Michael =?utf-8?B?S2rDtnJsaW5n?=) Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 11:49:39 +0000 Subject: [TUHS] Dash options In-Reply-To: <20171128111801.C05F31F936@orac.inputplus.co.uk> References: <201711280551.vAS5pDZt014974@darkstar.fourwinds.com> <20171128111801.C05F31F936@orac.inputplus.co.uk> Message-ID: <20171128114939.GE10453@h-174-65.A328.priv.bahnhof.se> On 28 Nov 2017 11:18 +0000, from ralph at inputplus.co.uk (Ralph Corderoy): > And Multics had some kind of `attach' and `detach' of I/O streams, well > known to Ossanna, so perhaps dup(2), and a Thompson-shell syntax to go > with it meant `>' was earmarked early on. Didn't early UNIX pipes use `<' to separate the commands involved? -- Michael Kjörling • https://michael.kjorling.se • michael at kjorling.se “People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don’t.” (Bjarne Stroustrup)