[csw-maintainers] solaris history question

[Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 1:04 AM, Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> wrote:
> I've discovered an interesting bit of solaris archaeology today and I
> wanted to ask those with longer solaris memory why such a thing is
> still supported.
>
> Long before I ever encountered a shell, ^ was the symbol used to
> separate commands in a pipeline.  It seems that solaris' /bin/sh is
> still allowing this in some cases.

It hit me today when I was building sharutils: they have an unquoted
caret in a /bin/sh script[1].  Thanks for this e-mail Ben, remembering
it sped up solving the problem for me.

Maciej

[1] https://gar.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gar/csw/mgar/pkg/sharutils/trunk/files/sun-sed.patch