what shell do I have? job-control

david.r.connet dcon at cbnewsc.att.com
Fri Apr 19 03:41:29 AEST 1991


In article <1410 at ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca> clewis at ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis) writes:
>They're both Bourne shells.  "echo -n" is a BSD-istic echo, hence it's
>preference on SunOS, and echo "\c" is an SV-istic echo.  "[ test ]"
>is a builtin in most Bourne shells nowadays.  "echo" is a builtin
>in many Bourne shells now too.  On recent versions of SunOS there is
>a complete suite of System V compatibility features, /bin/sh5 etc.

There is actually a /5bin (or is it /usr/5bin, it's been a while...).
The commands are in there (like sh, echo ...)

Dave Connet
dcon at iwtng.att.com



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