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From: jeff@onion.rain.com (Jeff Beadles)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5,comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Wierd shell bug could be useful
Message-ID: <1991Feb2.023113.24060@onion.rain.com>
Date: 2 Feb 91 02:31:13 GMT
References: <618@tndsyd.oz>
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In article <618@tndsyd.oz> root@tndsyd.oz (the main man) writes:
>Try this out:
>	$ echo > foo '
>	> garbage
>	> '
>	$

This is not a bug!  I often write scripts with something like this:

$ < file program > file2

The shell will allow redirection operators ('<' and '>') most anywhere.

It's not a bug, it's a FEATURE! :-)


	-Jeff
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Jeff Beadles		jeff@onion.rain.com