`;` problems in *sh

Stephen [Steve] R. Smoot smoot at roger-rabbit.Berkeley.EDU
Tue Apr 16 07:23:40 AEST 1991


Why does:
csh> `echo "ls ; ls"` 
fail?  
(Generates:
     ; not found
     ls not found
)

This happens in every shell I tried.  But doesnt seem like it should fail
according to the csh man pages.

N.B.
csh> `echo "( /bin/ls ; /bin/ls )"` 
also fails.  [(: Command not found.]

-s



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