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[107.10.246.128]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id t5sm26970162ywc.3.2020.01.04.18.42.00 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 04 Jan 2020 18:42:00 -0800 (PST) To: Dave Horsfall , The Eunuchs Hysterical Society References: <202001040258.0042wuic1359237@mail.cs.dartmouth.edu> <1ingL0-5g6-00@marmaro.de> From: Chet Ramey Autocrypt: addr=chet.ramey@case.edu; prefer-encrypt=mutual; keydata= mQGiBEEOsGwRBACFa0A1oa71HSZLWxAx0svXzhOZNQZOzqHmSuGOG92jIpQpr8DpvgRh40Yp AwdcXb8QG1J5yGAKeevNE1zCFaA725vGSdHUyypHouV0xoWwukYO6qlyyX+2BZU+okBUqoWQ koWxiYaCSfzB2Ln7pmdys1fJhcgBKf3VjWCjd2XJTwCgoFJOwyBFJdugjfwjSoRSwDOIMf0D /iQKqlWhIO1LGpMrGX0il0/x4zj0NAcSwAk7LaPZbN4UPjn5pqGEHBlf1+xDDQCkAoZ/VqES GZragl4VqJfxBr29Ag0UDvNbUbXoxQsARdero1M8GiAIRc50hj7HXFoERwenbNDJL86GPLAQ OTGOCa4W2o29nFfFjQrsrrYHzVtyA/9oyKvTeEMJ7NA3VJdWcmn7gOu0FxEmSNhSoV1T4vP2 1Wf7f5niCCRKQLNyUy0wEApQi4tSysdz+AbgAc0b/bHYVzIf2uO2lIEZQNNt+3g2bmXgloWm W5fsm/di50Gm1l1Na63d3RZ00SeFQos6WEwLUHEB0yp6KXluXLLIZitEJLQwQ2hldCBSYW1l eSAoQ2FzZSBzdGFuZGFyZCkgPGNoZXQucmFtZXlAY2FzZS5lZHU+iF8EExECAB8FAkPi19EC GwMHCwkIBwMCAQMVAgMDFgIBAh4BAheAAAoJELtYafBk6nSrelkAn31Gsuib7GcCZHbv5L5t VKYR9LklAJ4hzUHKA49Z0QXR+qCb80osIcmPSbkBDQRBDrBvEAQAkK6TAOKBEM+EC4j6V/7o /riVZqcgU5cid2qG9TXdwNtD9a3kvA/ObZBO93sX59wc6Bnwo4VJxsOmMlpGrAjJsxNwg3QH akEtf8LXRbVpj5xStdmBdQZUhIQyalo/2/TZq5OijtddUQcL5cs70hTv/FpT3wUvr2Xr8rjF 41IFEz8AAwcD/A0CZEGlzIrT5WCBnl6xBog/8vKiUCbarByat3d1mL6DbizvKNXQRTC9E/vE dENAWCQCjr75Bu55xT8n3SXGtWdDC5xmZ/P3OBYORP8yl8H8I1FIosWOFirbIeYdZPq8SPD1 HL+EXo9zSiHVrrZRJ19ooCKKbSdXHFCY+aJG+0KZiEkEGBECAAkFAkEOsG8CGwwACgkQu1hp 8GTqdKvjcACfZlkVCDwaz/NTO9cy3t69oWpVPNwAnRwe0qk/WL/gfhH346xh5B3HFbFN Organization: ITS, Case Western Reserve University Message-ID: <854eca1c-e5e5-5d8b-f5af-30cd1735096e@case.edu> Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2020 21:41:59 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.3.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Junkmail-Status: score=9/90, host=mpv1-2015.case.edu X-Junkmail-PrAS-Raw: score=9/90, refid=2.7.2:2020.1.5.12716:17:9.975, ip=, rules=__YOUTUBE_RCVD, DKIM_SIGNATURE, __X_GOOGLE_DKIM_SIGNATURE, __HAS_REPLYTO, __HAS_CC_HDR, __SUBJ_REPLY, __BOUNCE_CHALLENGE_SUBJ, __BOUNCE_NDR_SUBJ_EXEMPT, __TO_MALFORMED_2, __TO_NAME, __TO_NAME_DIFF_FROM_ACC, __HAS_REFERENCES, __REFERENCES, __HAS_FROM, FROM_EDU_TLD, __HAS_MSGID, __SANE_MSGID, DATE_TZ_NA, __USER_AGENT, __MOZILLA_USER_AGENT, __MIME_VERSION, __IN_REP_TO, __CT, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN, __CTE, __REPLYTO_SAMEAS_FROM_ADDY, __REPLYTO_SAMEAS_FROM_ACC, __FROM_DOMAIN_IN_ANY_CC1, __FROM_DOMAIN_IN_ANY_CC2, __TO_IN_SUBJECT2, __REPLYTO_SAMEAS_FROM_DOMAIN, __DKIM_ALIGNS_1, __DKIM_ALIGNS_2, __ANY_URI, __URI_MAILTO, __URI_WITH_PATH, __URI_NO_WWW, __CP_URI_IN_BODY, __SUBJ_ALPHA_NEGATE, __URI_IN_BODY, __URI_NOT_IMG, __MAIL_CHAIN, __FORWARDED_MSG, __BODY_NO_MAILTO, __NO_HTML_TAG_RAW, BODYTEXTP_SIZE_3000_LESS, BODY_SIZE_1000_1099, __MIME_TEXT_P1, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY, [TRUNCATED], so=2010-03-03 19:42:08, dmn=2016-08-03-0138 Subject: Re: [TUHS] sh: cmd | >file X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Reply-To: chet.ramey@case.edu Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" On 1/4/20 6:53 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote: > On Sat, 4 Jan 2020, Chet Ramey wrote: > >> It's elegant until you forget that `:' continues to process redirections. > > So just keep remembering that it's an actual command :-) > > Which reminds me: which Shell introduced "#" as a true comment? Define "true comment." The v7 shell had `#' as the comment character, but it only worked when in non-interactive shells. I think it was the Sys III shell that made it work when the shell was interactive. This is, incidentally, why bash has the `interactive_comments' option, which I saw in another message. BSD, which most of the GNU developers were using at the (pre-POSIX) time, used the v7 shell and didn't have interactive comments. When a sufficiently-advanced POSIX draft required them, we added it. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/