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From: andrewt@watsnew.waterloo.edu (Andrew Thomas)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: bash 1.04 dumps core with pipe to function
Message-ID: <ANDREWT.89Nov14112719@watsnew.waterloo.edu>
Date: 14 Nov 89 16:27:19 GMT
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Organization: University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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On a uVax II running Ultrix 2.0

the following set of commands always causes bash to fail:

bash$ function gnu () { /usr/local/gnu/bin/$* ; }
bash$ cat test.tar | gnu tar -tvf -

gdb output can be produced if needed.
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Andrew Thomas
andrewt@watsnew.waterloo.edu	Systems Design Eng.	University of Waterloo
"If a million people do a stupid thing, it's still a stupid thing." - Opus