Bug in csh

[Chris Torek]

In article <428 at kl-cs.UUCP> jonathan at cs.keele.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight) writes:
>Bug:	The csh dirs command is documented as producing an
>	abbreviated output form using ~ unless the -l option
>	is used.  However if `dirs` is used the full path name
>	is returned without the -l option.

This is not the case.

>Example:
>	% dirs
>	~
>	% echo `dirs`
>	/fs/cs/jonathan
>
>	echo `dirs` should have produced ~.

But

	% echo ~

would produce

	/fs/cs/jonathan

and not

	~

The text returned from backquote expansion is re-globbed unless
quoted (or `noglob' is set).  After

	% set noglob

the commands

	% echo ~
	% echo `dirs`
	% unset noglob
	% echo "`dirs`"

all produce

	~
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