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From: smoot@roger-rabbit.Berkeley.EDU (Stephen [Steve] R. Smoot)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: `;` problems in *sh
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Date: 15 Apr 91 21:23:40 GMT
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Why does:
csh> `echo "ls ; ls"` 
fail?  
(Generates:
     ; not found
     ls not found
)

This happens in every shell I tried.  But doesnt seem like it should fail
according to the csh man pages.

N.B.
csh> `echo "( /bin/ls ; /bin/ls )"` 
also fails.  [(: Command not found.]

-s