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From: honey@princeton.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.bugs.4bsd
Subject: amusing 4.1bsd csh bug: dirs
Message-ID: <142@princeton.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 17-Nov-83 09:45:13 EST
Article-I.D.: princeto.142
Posted: Thu Nov 17 09:45:13 1983
Date-Received: Sat, 19-Nov-83 01:00:01 EST
Organization: Princeton Univ. EECS
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as the following (annotated) script shows, the csh is too smart for its
own good.  (i haven't tried this under 4.1c or 4.2.)
	peter honeyman

Script started on Thu Nov 17 09:29:59 1983
% cd ~honey
% pwd
/va/honey			/* ~honey == /va/honey */
% mkdir /va/honeytilde
% cd /va/honeytilde		/* now for the fun part */
% pwd
/va/honeytilde			/* ok so far */
% dirs
~tilde 				/* but but ... */
% grep tilde /etc/passwd	/* ... there is no user "tilde"! */
% 
script done on Thu Nov 17 09:31:24 1983