Wierd shell bug could be useful

Doug Gwyn gwyn at smoke.brl.mil
Thu Jan 31 06:09:34 AEST 1991


In article <618 at tndsyd.oz> root at tndsyd.oz (the main man) writes:
>Try this out:
>	$ echo > foo '
>	> garbage
>	> '
>A user friendly bug !!!

What do you mean, bug?  The Bourne shell has always been advertised
as accepting I/O redirections anywhere among the arguments.



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