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From: douglas@dekalb.UUCP (Douglas B. Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Hard links vs. Soft links
Message-ID: <1052@dekalb.UUCP>
Date: 3 Sep 90 14:44:47 GMT
References: <1084.26d2a42b@desire.wright.edu> <13646@ulysses.att.com> <2866@wyse.wyse.com> <738@primerd.PRIME.COM>
Reply-To: douglas@dekalb.UUCP (Douglas B. Jones)
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In article <738@primerd.PRIME.COM> milgr@teapot.prime.COM (Marc Milgram) writes:
>In article <2866@wyse.wyse.com>, bob@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@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

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