Bugtraq: Re: BUG in /bin/bash

[owner-bugtraq () NETSPACE ORG (Alan Cox)]

i tried it on my RS/6Ks w/ ksh.
it seems to work on AIX 3.5.5.[01] but they fixed it on 4.1.4.


Orphy!:-)

On Fri, 13 Sep 1996, Yiorgos Adamopoulos wrote:

> >   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.
>
> -Yiorgos.
>  Y.Adamopoulos () noc ntua gr