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Old 02-01-2009
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Originally Posted by phantandy
BTW, my original code really works on my HPUX Smilie
The first line is #!/bin/sh, how can I check the exact version?

Are you sure it works when there are multiple matching files? I've never heard of a Bourne-type shell where that would work.
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Old 02-02-2009
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Originally Posted by cfajohnson

Are you sure it works when there are multiple matching files? I've never heard of a Bourne-type shell where that would work.
Yes, this part is taken from a script which has been running on our HPUX system for years. Now we are migrating the system to Linux, that's how we found this problem.
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