Re: Ksh output garbled/out-of-sync

On May 9, 8:28 pm, govindrjuj...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Can somebody explain this ? -- thx

/tmp> cat ./1.sh
#!/bin/ksh

for name in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
do
/bin/echo "<$name>"
/bin/cat /etc/passwd | head -1 | tail
done

/tmp> ./1.sh
<1>
root:x:0:1:HOSTNAME Super-User:/:/usr/bin/ksh
<2>
root:x:0:1:HOSTNAME Super-User:/:/usr/bin/ksh
<3>
root:x:0:1:HOSTNAME Super-User:/:/usr/bin/ksh
<4>
root:x:0:1:HOSTNAME Super-User:/:/usr/bin/ksh
<5>
root:x:0:1:HOSTNAME Super-User:/:/usr/bin/ksh
<6>
root:x:0:1:HOSTNAME Super-User:/:/usr/bin/ksh
<7>
root:x:0:1:HOSTNAME Super-User:/:/usr/bin/ksh
<8>
<9>
root:x:0:1:HOSTNAME Super-User:/:/usr/bin/ksh
root:x:0:1:HOSTNAME Super-User:/:/usr/bin/ksh
<10>
root:x:0:1:HOSTNAME Super-User:/:/usr/bin/ksh

Looks like problem with "head". Happening on Solaris 5.8.

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