Hard links vs. Soft links

Douglas B. Jones douglas at dekalb.UUCP
Tue Sep 4 00:44:47 AEST 1990


In article <738 at primerd.PRIME.COM> milgr at teapot.prime.COM (Marc Milgram) writes:
>In article <2866 at wyse.wyse.com>, bob at wyse.wyse.com (Bob McGowen x4312
>dept208) writes:
>aliases work in the bourne shell (at least all of the /bin/sh's that I
                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>have used.
 ^^^^^^^^^
>For example:
>ls()
>{
>  /bin/ls -CFb $@
>}
>is the same as aliases ls '/bin/ls -CFb \!*' #csh notation
>This lets me make /bin/sh survivable on strictly SV3.2
>systems for me.
>Marc Milgram
>milgr at teapot.prime.com


For what it is worth, the functions do not work on ULTRIX 3.0 /bin/sh. This
is suppose to be from BSD sh from a while back. The functions do work on the
/bin/sh5 which is suppose to be based on SYS V.2 (I think it is version 2).

So, based of this, *early* version of sh might not support this.

Thanks for pointing out this function, I had not though to test our sh5
out for this. Learn something new every day.

Douglas

-- 
Doulas B. Jones					douglas at dekalb
Academic Computer Center		or	gatech!dekalb!douglas
DeKalb College
555 N. Indian Creek Drive/Clarkston, Ga. 30021  (404) 299-4233



More information about the Comp.unix.wizards mailing list