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Re: BUG in /bin/bash
From: proff () suburbia net (Julian Assange)
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 10:23:26 +1000
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' blahThis 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
And can amusingly enough be used to circumvent the all.net telnet wrapper. -- "Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies, The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C.S. Lewis, _God in the Dock_ +---------------------+--------------------+----------------------------------+ |Julian Assange RSO | PO Box 2031 BARKER | Secret Analytic Guy Union | |proff () suburbia net | VIC 3122 AUSTRALIA | finger for PGP key hash ID = | |proff () gnu ai mit edu | FAX +61-3-98199066 | 0619737CCC143F6DEA73E27378933690 | +---------------------+--------------------+----------------------------------+
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- Re: BUG in /bin/bash Roger Espel Llima (Sep 13)
- Re: BUG in /bin/bash Yiorgos Adamopoulos (Sep 13)
- Re: BUG in /bin/bash Julian Assange (Sep 13)
- Re: BUG in /bin/bash Alan Cox (Sep 14)
- Re: BUG in /bin/bash Aggelos P. Varvitsiotis (Sep 16)
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- Re: BUG in /bin/bash Dan Stromberg (Sep 14)
- Re: BUG in /bin/bash Alan Cox (Sep 17)
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- Re: BUG in /bin/bash Yiorgos Adamopoulos (Sep 13)