Environment variable brain damage :-)
Arthur David Olson
ado at elsie.UUCP
Wed Feb 27 11:31:20 AEST 1985
> . . .Bug: Environment variables set in the C-shell may cause Bourne shell
> to freak out. . .
> 1) Set an environment variable containing a hyphen (say "setenv A-B 1")
> 2) Type "sh"
> The result will be the message "A-B=1: is not an identifier", not a
> shell.
That's no bug--you can use it to disallow subshells from "more." :-)
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