Wierd shell bug could be useful
Jeff Beadles
jeff at onion.rain.com
Sat Feb 2 13:31:13 AEST 1991
In article <618 at tndsyd.oz> root at tndsyd.oz (the main man) writes:
>Try this out:
> $ echo > foo '
> > garbage
> > '
> $
This is not a bug! I often write scripts with something like this:
$ < file program > file2
The shell will allow redirection operators ('<' and '>') most anywhere.
It's not a bug, it's a FEATURE! :-)
-Jeff
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