Stephane Chazelas wrote:
> Dan Mercer wrote: 
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I don't know any Bourne shell which implements it.

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> It might or might not work with ksh88, will depend on the version
> and implementation. It will work with POSIX conformant ones.

It was apparently introduced with ksh88-e (however, i can't find
anything related in its changelog.)   HP-UX 8 and 9 /bin/posix/sh
is older (88c) - that's the only exception i know.

(BTW, this was added to ash on 4.4BSDalpha, thus it's
also available in all ash variants aiming at POSIX.
bash and pdksh probably had it almost since birth.)

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2006-02-27, 21:50(+01), Sven Mascheck:
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> I don't know any Bourne shell which implements it.

Ah OK, IDNRC, then. I thought you mentionned it once, sorry.
 
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> 
>
> It was apparently introduced with ksh88-e (however, i can't find
> anything related in its changelog.)   HP-UX 8 and 9 /bin/posix/sh
> is older (88c) - that's the only exception i know.
>
> (BTW, this was added to ash on 4.4BSDalpha, thus it's
>  also available in all ash variants aiming at POSIX.
>  bash and pdksh probably had it almost since birth.)

And zsh (at least 2.00.01 already had it, that must have been
around 1991).

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Stéphane

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