Re: Historical Man pages or documentation

[Pierre Gaston]

On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 3:29 AM Nicholas Papadonis <
address@hidden> wrote:

> Correction, I'm looking for the Bourne Shell early documentation.  So far I
> have found the the "The Unix Programming Environment" which details parts
> of it in a tutorial.
>
> My main goes were to understand how the syntax has morphed over time.  I
> found of interest that the original Thompson shell redirection morphed
> backwards to:
>
> cmd1 | cmd2
> cmd1 ^ cmd2
> cmd1 >cmd2>
>
> Nick
>
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 9:49 PM Nicholas Papadonis <
> address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Is anyone aware of very early man pages or documentation for bash?
> >
> > Interested in how it was documented over time.
> >
> > Thank you
> >
>
maybe you'll find this https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/hist.html#pipes
interesting
(and http://man.cat-v.org/unix_7th/ )