RE: Piping output from sqlplus

["Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>]

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> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Chuck
> Sent: 17 December 2004 12:59

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> Bakken, Luke wrote:
> |>Why would ksh behave differently under Cygwin than under Solaris?
> |
> |
> | cygwin ksh is pdksh. The specific set of code you gave does 
> not work in
> | pdksh. Read about it here:
> | http://web.cs.mun.ca/~michael/pdksh/
> |
> | "Its weak points are that there are still a few differences 
> from ksh88
> | (the major one is that `echo hi | read x' does not set x in 
> the current
> | shell - the read is done in a separate process). See the 
> NOTES file in
> | the distribution for more details."
> |
> | You can get a Cygwin ksh from www.kornshell.com
> |
> 
> That explains it. I'll check out the one on www.kornshell.com. Thanks.
> 


  At this stage of the proceedings it is traditional for me to have to explain
that I am no relation.... :)

    cheers, 
      DaveK
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