On 4/23/15 3:28 AM, Valentin Bajrami wrote:
> Chet,
>
> 'history' is not the builtin command in this case. 'history' is a normal
> file containing awk code (see my first post). I named it history because
> it does some calculations and shows the 10 most used commands. The file is
> expecting some input from a command (pipe) like the 'history' builtin command.
OK, that turned out to be the key. I figured out the cause: a combination
of a shell function running as part of a pipeline run by an interactive
shell, running an external command from the file system. The fix will be
in the next release of bash.
Chet
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