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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: End-of-file character (was script > mumble)
Message-ID: <1503@fireball.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 10 Oct 88 19:32:22 GMT
References: <4975@saturn.ucsc.edu> <503@quintus.UUCP>
Reply-To: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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In article <503@quintus.UUCP> ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
\... here's some source code:
[C source deleted]

People, what happened to good old shell script programming?

BSD:
sh -c 'stty all 2> /tmp/stty.$$; set `tail -1 /tmp/stty.$$`;
	shift; shift; echo $9; /bin/rm /tmp/stty.$$'
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
SysV:
sh -c 'stty -a | sed -e "s/.*eof = \([^;]*\).*/\1/" -e q'
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

BTW, this shows the SysV stty(1) command is favorable in one way: if stdout
isn't a tty, try stderr or stdin! (So we won't need the stupid temp file.)
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