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From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Trick question
Message-ID: <7665@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 20-Oct-87 11:07:37 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 20 11:07:37 1987
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References: <666@portofix.liu.se>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <666@portofix.liu.se> kjepo@portofix.liu.se (Kjell Post) writes:
|A little trick question for you all: what's happening here?
================ stuff ================
|	% cat > +
|        date
|        ^D
|        % chmod +x +
|        % +
|        $                         -- entered Bourne-shell

I have only been able to get this to happen on SysV systems with csh.
Moreover it works as expected if I use "./+" instead. The problem
appears to be due to the csh stripping the + as an option somehow. When
it sees the leading + it identifies the file as a command file, starts
to setup an exec call, then treats the + as an option rather than a
filename and strips it.

Now I have a question: why are you doing this?
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	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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