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From: stumpf@gtenmc.UUCP (Jon S. Stumpf)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: ksh(1) bug?
Keywords: ksh korn shell
Message-ID: <710@gtenmc.UUCP>
Date: 28 Mar 90 16:24:31 GMT
Organization: GTE Telecom Inc., Bothell, WA
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By mistake I typed a pipeline with a missing command similar to the following:

	ls | > tmp

Obviously, I am missing a command after the pipe (eg. sort).  Looking at the
grammar on page 310-311 in "The Korn Shell" by Bolsky and Korn, I believe that
a "command" cannot reduce into nothing.  This would indicate to me that I
should receive some kind of syntax error.  Instead, tmp is created and has
zero length.

I am running /bin/ksh, Version 11/16/88b.  Is this an error or am I reading
the grammar wrong?

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 jss - Jon S. Stumpf