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The FreeBSD man page for `paste` claims it first appeared in Unix 32V (1979; derived from v7 Unix, and ancestral to both 4BSD and SysV).
by LukeShu 5y ago
The FreeBSD man page for `paste` claims it first appeared in Unix 32V (1979; derived from v7 Unix, and ancestral to both 4BSD and SysV).
- mprovost 5y agoHere's the commit from 1978: https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/Bell-32V-Snapshot-Development/usr/src/cmd/paste.c https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/Bell-32... The comments refer to an "old 127 paste command" but I have no idea what that is.
- LukeShu 5y agoI hadn't pursued it further than seeing that it was added in an 1978 commit. Looking at it further, there are a few answers at https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2020-January/019955.html https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2020-January/019955.h... > GWRL stands for Gottfried W. R. Luderer, the author of cut(1) and paste(1), probably around 1978. Those came either from PWB or USG I can verify that neither cut nor past were in PWB 1: https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=PWB1 https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=PWB1 > Also "127" was the internal department number for the Computer Science Research group at Bell Labs where UNIX originated