Subject: Re: B20: piping problem in pdksh
From: [email-masked] (Corinna Vinschen)

12 Nov 1998 11:42:27 -0800
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To: Terry Griffin <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]

Terry Griffin wrote:
> 
> I was using the public domain korn shell (ftp://ftp.cs.mun.ca/pub/pdksh/)
> version 5.2.13 with B19 and it was working fine. I upgraded to B20 and
> following no longer works:
> 
>     ENVVAR=`command1 | command2`
> 
> No matter what the output of "command1 | command2" ENVVAR always comes
> up empty. This works fine:
> 
>     command1 | command2
> 
> and this works fine:
> 
>     ENVVAR=`command1`
> 
> but combining the backquotes with the pipe suppresses the output
> of the commands. Rebuilding pdksh for B20 didn't help. Bash does
> not suffer from the same problem.

Hi Terry,

this works properly on my computer. Are you still using
B19 programs and do you still have the old B19 DLL? If so,
and the above commands use different dlls, somthing like
the above may happen...

Corinna

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