Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rlgvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!rlgvax!guy From: guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.bugs.usg Subject: Re: Bug in regex(3)? (and bug in sh(1)) Message-ID: <532@rlgvax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 28-Feb-85 22:31:18 EST Article-I.D.: rlgvax.532 Posted: Thu Feb 28 22:31:18 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Mar-85 09:20:07 EST References: <104@cfib.UUCP> <527@rlgvax.UUCP> Organization: CCI Office Systems Group, Reston, VA Lines: 13 Xref: linus net.unix-wizards:9357 net.bugs.usg:158 > 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