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From: jbrayton@mipos2.intel.com (Jim Brayton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Bug in /bin/sh??
Message-ID: <400@mipos3.intel.com>
Date: 30 Jun 89 20:08:25 GMT
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Reply-To: jbrayton@mipos2.intel.com (Jim Brayton)
Organization: Microprocessor Component Group, Intel Corp., Santa Clara, CA
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The following appears to be a bug in /bin/sh under Ultrix 2.2 and 3.1 (the only
Ultrix system's I have access to):

The short shell program:

=================================
#!/bin/sh

bogus=`cat << END
a
END
`

/bin/echo $bogus
=================================

should print an 'a' when run, instead under Ultrix it reports an error message like:

	/tmp/sh108410: cannot open

I've tried this under SunOS 4.0 and it works as expected.  Is this a known problem with
Ultrix?

	- jim brayton -


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