Bugtraq: Re: BUG in /bin/bash

[avarvit () cc ece ntua gr (Aggelos P. Varvitsiotis)]

> >   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