Weird shell bug could be useful
Tom Christiansen
tchrist at convex.COM
Thu Jan 31 05:31:28 AEST 1991
>From the keyboard of root at tndsyd.oz (the main man):
:Try this out:
: $ echo > foo '
: > garbage
: > ...
: > ...
: > ...
: > ...
: > '
: $
:
:Then cat foo. This is a wierd bug but could be used instead of:
: cat << ! > foo
: garbage
: ...
: ...
: ...
: ...
: !
That's not a bug -- it's a feature. That the csh doesn't do
the right thing here is its problem; real shells are defined to
behave in just this way. If it ever stops working, complain.
--tom
--
"Hey, did you hear Stallman has replaced /vmunix with /vmunix.el? Now
he can finally have the whole O/S built-in to his editor like he
always wanted!" --me (Tom Christiansen <tchrist at convex.com>)
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