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Article #259Re: Differences between bash-1.12 and ksh88
From: Donn Cave
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1992 18:56
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1992 18:56
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chet@odin.ins.cwru.edu (Chet Ramey) writes: |> 5) $(< file) doesn't work | Use $(cat file), as the Posix.2 spec suggests. Too bad, this is a nice feature in ksh. Seems like it would be faster and cleaner (don't have to worry about PATH, for example, to find "cat"). I use it a lot, and replacing it with $(cat file) would feel to me like replacing cmd<file with cat file|cmd. No surprise to see that POSIX 1003.2 doesn't demand this feature - but does it deprecate it in some way? Incidentally, I may have missed this but I don't recall seeing any mention of (( )) and [[ ]], which one may find in ksh but not bash. Donn Cave, University Computing Services, University of Washington donn@cac.washington.edu
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Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!carson.u.washington.edu!donn From: donn@carson.u.washington.edu (Donn Cave) Subject: Re: Differences between bash-1.12 and ksh88 Message-ID: <1992Aug5.185618.27092@u.washington.edu> Sender: gnulists@ai.mit.edu Organization: University of Washington References: <9208031107.AA10483.SM@odin.INS.CWRU.Edu> Distribution: gnu Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1992 18:56:18 GMT Approved: bug-bash@prep.ai.mit.edu Lines: 20