Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!decwrl!purdue!haven!cvl!elsie!ado From: ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Using ksh to count the number of spaces in a string fails :-) Message-ID: <9088@elsie.UUCP> Date: 10 Mar 89 01:07:21 GMT Organization: NIH-LEC, Bethesda, MD Lines: 10 Our version of ksh may be a lot older than ksh88, but it is entertaining: Script started on Thu Mar 9 20:03:58 1989 elsie$ ksh -c " " ksh: no space elsie$ exit script done on Thu Mar 9 20:04:08 1989 -- Arthur David Olson ado@ncifcrf.gov ADO is a trademark of Ampex.