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From: ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: trap 0 in /bin/sh
Message-ID: <1991Mar27.153352.4421@robobar.co.uk>
Date: 27 Mar 91 15:33:52 GMT
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Can someone explain why these two commands give different output ?
Is there some subtlety about the "trap" command that I don't understand ?

	$ ( trap 'echo foo' 0 ; true )
	$ ( trap 'echo foo' 0 ; : )
	foo

I tried this using /bin/sh on SCO Xenix, SCO Unix (orig release) and
GEC UX/63 (SVR2, I think) and SunOS 4.1.  Yes, I know they're all System V
/bin/sh, but I don't have a BSD handy to try.

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