Nasty bug in release 4 Bourne shell

[Wm E. Davidsen Jr]

In article <andy.662338820 at xwkg> andy at xwkg.Icom.Com (Andrew H. Marrinson) writes:

| If you run this with the input
| 
|         file1
|         file2
| 
| You get a single file, file1, containing the two lines

  Actually, if you forget to put "exec >/dev/tty" after the loop you
will get a lot more than two lines...

| I got this result using Dell Unix.  I suspect that it is an AT&T bug,
| though.  I can't imagine Dell fooled with Bourne shell at all.  Let me
| know if there is a release 4 System V out there that doesn't do this!

  Use your ksh! Seems to work there.
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