From: Ben Walton <bdwalton@gmail.com>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] The UNIX Command Language (1976)
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2020 21:01:00 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP30j1542Fk3JosJ-bF+5pHPyd+-iNbjJZgki+UP5+Zr2CJZ1Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201203204301.GW19746@mcvoy.com>
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On Thu 3 Dec 2020, 20:43 Larry McVoy, <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 09:37:17PM +0100, Niklas Karlsson wrote:
> > Den tors 3 dec. 2020 kl 21:32 skrev M Douglas McIlroy <
> > m.douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu>:
> >
> > > There's a back story. The paper appears in the proceedings of a
> > > conference held in London in 1973, a few months after the advent of
> > > pipes. While preparing the presentation, Ken was inspired to invent
> > > and install the pipe operator. His talk wouldn't have been nearly as
> > > compelling had it been expressed in the original pipeline syntax (for
> > > which I take the blame).
> > >
> >
> > Now I'm curious. Is there anywhere I can read about the original pipeline
> > syntax? I tried searching a bit, but the only mention that was even
> vaguely
> > informative only stated that > was involved.
>
> Wasn't there a version that was
>
> cat whatever ^ wc -l
>
> ?
>
Yes, that's it. And you'll still find[1] that /bin/sh on (at least?)
Solaris honors that syntax. That's one reason why the git test suite fails
on Solaris without being pushed to use a modern shell implementation.
Thanks
-Ben
[1] At least up to Solaris 10. I've not used newer.
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2020-12-03 20:31 ` M Douglas McIlroy
2020-12-03 20:37 ` Niklas Karlsson
2020-12-03 20:43 ` Larry McVoy
2020-12-03 20:56 ` Ralph Corderoy
2020-12-03 21:01 ` Ben Walton [this message]
2020-12-03 21:12 ` Clem Cole
2020-12-04 0:29 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-12-04 0:43 ` Rob Pike
2020-12-04 0:48 ` Larry McVoy
2020-12-04 1:25 ` Dan Cross
2020-12-04 9:27 ` arnold
2020-12-04 11:33 ` Andy Kosela
2020-12-04 13:14 ` Tyler Adams
2020-12-04 13:17 ` Niklas Karlsson
2020-12-04 13:22 ` Tyler Adams
2020-12-04 13:25 ` Niklas Karlsson
2020-12-04 0:45 ` George Michaelson
2020-12-04 1:10 ` Bakul Shah
2020-12-04 1:17 ` George Michaelson
2020-12-03 20:51 ` M Douglas McIlroy
2020-12-01 3:13 Norman Wilson
2020-12-02 0:31 ` George Michaelson
2020-12-02 1:06 ` Adam Thornton
2020-12-02 17:02 ` John Cowan
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2020-12-01 0:00 ` Joachim via TUHS
2020-12-01 0:21 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-12-01 2:23 ` Larry McVoy
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2020-11-30 3:10 Joachim via TUHS
2020-11-30 8:30 ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-11-30 13:36 ` Brantley Coile
2020-11-30 15:12 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS
2020-11-30 15:52 ` Clem Cole
2020-11-30 16:25 ` Dan Cross
2020-11-30 16:38 ` Warner Losh
2020-11-30 16:41 ` Dan Cross
2020-11-30 16:37 ` Larry McVoy
2020-11-30 16:54 ` Clem Cole
2020-11-30 18:13 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-11-30 18:25 ` John Cowan
2020-11-30 18:37 ` Clem Cole
2020-11-30 20:11 ` arnold
2020-11-30 21:49 ` Will Senn
2020-12-01 2:55 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-11-30 18:46 ` Nemo Nusquam
2020-12-01 3:59 ` jason-tuhs
2020-12-01 4:03 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-12-01 9:27 ` Steve Nickolas
2020-12-01 15:09 ` Jim Capp
2020-12-01 15:35 ` Toby Thain
2020-12-01 15:38 ` arnold
2020-12-01 16:24 ` Warner Losh
2020-12-01 16:39 ` arnold
2020-12-01 20:13 ` Rob Pike
2020-12-02 7:08 ` arnold
2020-12-02 7:29 ` Rob Pike
2020-12-01 20:20 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-12-01 20:39 ` Bakul Shah
2020-12-01 21:24 ` Dan Cross
2020-12-01 23:44 ` John Cowan
2020-12-12 19:50 ` scj
2020-12-01 16:47 ` Larry McVoy
2020-12-01 20:13 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-12-01 20:49 ` John Cowan
2020-12-01 16:04 ` Tyler Adams
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