<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 7:29 PM, Gregory Shenaut <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gkshenaut@ucdavis.edu" target="_blank">gkshenaut@ucdavis.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">If you have a file, call it X, containing the following:<div><br></div><div><div></div>
</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div>'/bin/echo -n "$IFS" | hexdump'</div><div>cc</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>and you then run the command « sh < X », you get:</div></div></blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>This is not the test they were asked to perform, and is not relevant.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">
<div><blockquote type="cite">sh: line 1: /bin/echo -n "$IFS" | hexdump: No such file or directory<br>clang: error: no input files<br></blockquote><br></div><div>on my 10.9.4 system (which is having no problems I am aware of). This is quite similar to the error message being discussed.</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You may consider it "quite similar" but there are significant differences.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div></div><div>Furthermore, the command « cmp -b /bin/sh /bin/bash » produces</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, I determined they were actually different later (in private correspondence). They are however related --- and "sh --version" will not get you the version message that vignesh got.</div>
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