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From: dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Sherman)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: A quick was to make the shell loop
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Date: Wed, 22-Jun-83 15:36:55 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 22 15:36:55 1983
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I accidentally typed
	. .
to the v7 shell, and it hung (until I hit interrupt, of course).
When you think about it, you realize that it tried to execute "."
(current directory) as a shell file, which in turn tried to execute
". ..", which in turn...