Bug in regex(3)? (and bug in sh(1))

Guy Harris guy at rlgvax.UUCP
Fri Mar 1 13:31:18 AEST 1985


> However, I did discover an amusing shell bug by accident; I mistyped
> "sh -x stuff.sh >>stuff" (a test script) as "sh .x stuff.sh >>stuff", and
> got
> 
> 	: : cannot open
> 
> and got ".x.x" at the end of "stuff".

False alarm.  Sorry.  That's not in the standard S5R2 shell, but it is in the
BRL-modified shell (with Berkeley job control) that I run.  Never mind.

	Guy Harris
	{seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy



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