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From: guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: Bug in regex(3)? (and bug in sh(1))
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Date: Thu, 28-Feb-85 22:31:18 EST
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> 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