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From: ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: More challenges with stuff between slashes
Message-ID: <9184@elsie.UUCP>
Date: 23 Oct 89 17:21:32 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Organization: NIH-LEC, Bethesda, MD
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It seems that awk isn't the only program that has trouble with stuff between
slashes.  In awk's case it was "/=/"; for sh and ksh (or is it csh?). . .

	Script started on Mon Oct 23 13:18:48 1989
	elsie$ /bin/sh
	$ /bin/echo /e*/
	/e*/
	$ exit
	elsie$ /usr/local/bin/ksh
	elsie$ /bin/echo /e*/
	/e*/
	elsie$ exit
	elsie$ /bin/csh
	{elsie:1} /bin/echo /e*/
	/etc/ /export/
	{elsie:2} exit
	{elsie:3} elsie$ exit

	script done on Mon Oct 23 13:19:16 1989
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	Arthur David Olson   ado@alw.nih.gov   ADO is a trademark of Ampex.