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Re: Piping output from sqlplus


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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.

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