I take back the stuff where a directory can be a command - it interacts weird
with $path:
you’d do `..’ thinking it’s the same as `cd ..’, except it’s actually `cd
/bin/..’.
> is there a buildable version of es any longer?
I just found
http://wryun.github.io/es-shell/
I’ve never actually used es, this or any other version; this is the first I’ve
heard you
couldn’t just use the original.
Hey, does anybody know if Tom Duff really invented process substitution? ( <{} )
There’s a comment in ‘A Retrospective’ (1978, I think - it’s in the 1978 BSTJ
edition
`UNIX Time-Sharing System’; I have a tenth-anniversary reprint called ‘UNIX
System
Readings And Applications’) by Dennis Ritchie about how a syntax for non-linear
pipelines has already been proposed. /dev/fd wouldn’t have existed yet, so does
anybody know what he’s referring to here?
Whoever it was, I bet it was Doug.
-Morrow
