barry@CS.UCLA.EDU (08/13/86)
The following script is an example of some problems we have been having
here at UCLA. Note that the same command can produce radically
different results on the length of the final output file. My question
is, has anybody else seen this type of a problem? Any help would be
appreciated.
barry@cs.ucla.edu
Script started on Tue Aug 12 17:38:03 1986
{ulysses 1} cat /etc/passwd | rsh ulysses dd bs=1024 > /tmp/barry/foo
28+1 records in
28+1 records out
{ulysses 2} ls -l /etc/passwd foo #1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 28989 Aug 12 13:16 /etc/passwd
-rw-r--r-- 1 barry 28989 Aug 12 17:38 foo
{ulysses 3} !-2
cat /etc/passwd | rsh ulysses dd bs=1024 > /tmp/barry/foo
28+1 records in
28+1 records out
{ulysses 4} !l
ls -l /etc/passwd foo #2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 28989 Aug 12 13:16 /etc/passwd
-rw-r--r-- 1 barry 28672 Aug 12 17:38 foo
{ulysses 5} !-2
cat /etc/passwd | rsh ulysses dd bs=1024 > /tmp/barry/foo
27+0 records in
27+0 records out
{ulysses 6} !l
ls -l /etc/passwd foo #3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 28989 Aug 12 13:16 /etc/passwd
-rw-r--r-- 1 barry 27648 Aug 12 17:38 foo
{ulysses 7} !-2
cat /etc/passwd | rsh ulysses dd bs=1024 > /tmp/barry/foo
28+1 records in
28+1 records out
{ulysses 8} !ls #4
ls -l /etc/passwd foo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 28989 Aug 12 13:16 /etc/passwd
-rw-r--r-- 1 barry 28989 Aug 12 17:39 foo
{ulysses 9} exit
script done on Tue Aug 12 17:39:08 1986