[3358] in bugtraq
Re: BUG in /bin/bash
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aggelos P. Varvitsiotis)
Mon Sep 16 15:17:31 1996
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 10:10:57 +0300
Reply-To: "Aggelos P. Varvitsiotis" <avarvit@cc.ece.ntua.gr>
From: "Aggelos P. Varvitsiotis" <avarvit@cc.ece.ntua.gr>
To: Multiple recipients of list BUGTRAQ <BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG>
In-Reply-To: <199609131814.VAA24135@noc.ntua.gr> from "Yiorgos Adamopoulos" at
Sep 13, 96 09:14:37 pm
> > 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.
I verified the same "feature" in OSF1's /bin/sh too (OSF1 v3.2).
A.Varvitsiotis
