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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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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-12-03 21:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CAKH6PiWA2uN4m0AGp7VRJTQ6XXDLJQweHoHjx2wN=zQYs1onpA@mail.gmail.com>
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
     [not found] <CAMP=X_mO9oawUpHGOvgVtwVTgcmvdXAc5vrE_+s3d2NsH+1HgA@mail.gmail.com>
2020-12-01  0:00 ` Joachim via TUHS
2020-12-01  0:21   ` Dave Horsfall
2020-12-01  2:23     ` Larry McVoy
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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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