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From: stumpf@gtenmc.UUCP (Jon S. Stumpf)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: ksh(1) bug?  (It is no bug.)
Summary: io redirection is a "simple-command"
Keywords: ksh korn shell
Message-ID: <714@gtenmc.UUCP>
Date: 29 Mar 90 16:17:33 GMT
References: <710@gtenmc.UUCP>
Organization: GTE Telecom Inc., Bothell, WA
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In article <710@gtenmc.UUCP>, stumpf@gtenmc.UUCP (Jon S. Stumpf) writes:
> 
> By mistake I typed a pipeline with a missing command similar to the following:
> 
> 	ls | > tmp
> 
> I am running /bin/ksh, Version 11/16/88b.  Is this an error or am I reading
> the grammar wrong?

"> tmp" or io redirection is a simple-command as specified in the grammar.
This was *my* error :-/.  I thank the net for giving me straight answers
and no flames for my lack of thoroughness.

-- 
 jss - Jon S. Stumpf