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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Jeff Beadles		jeff at onion.rain.com



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