[3354] in bugtraq
Re: BUG in /bin/bash
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (owner-bugtraq@NETSPACE.ORG)
Mon Sep 16 14:24:41 1996
From: <owner-bugtraq@NETSPACE.ORG>
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 21:26:42 -0400
X-To: Yiorgos Adamopoulos <Y.Adamopoulos@NOC.NTUA.GR>
To: Multiple recipients of list BUGTRAQ <BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG>
In-Reply-To: <199609131814.VAA24135@noc.ntua.gr>
i tried it on my RS/6Ks w/ ksh.
it seems to work on AIX 3.5.5.[01] but they fixed it on 4.1.4.
Orphy! :-)
On Fri, 13 Sep 1996, Yiorgos Adamopoulos wrote:
> > That reminds me of a similar "little-known feature" on SunOS and
> > Solaris, where /bin/sh interprets '^' as a synonym for '|' :
> >
> > $ sh -c 'echo blah ^ cat'
> > blah
>
> This archaic compatibility feature is not only of SunOS/Solaris but also
> of Ultrix4.3A (both sh and sh5) and HP-UX 9.05. Ksh, pdksh and /bin/posix/sh
> do not support this.
>
> -Yiorgos.
> Y.Adamopoulos@noc.ntua.gr
>
