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From: gregg@a.cs.okstate.edu (Gregg Wonderly)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: \"+\" filename -> /bin/sh !
Message-ID: <2704@okstate.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 19-Oct-87 14:46:08 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 19 14:46:08 1987
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in article <3351@sol.ARPA>, ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap) says:
> 
> Since + is a non-binary, you are effectively doing /bin/sh +.  Try
> this:
> 
> 	/bin/sh +
> 
> and get an interactive sh. In fact any argument starting with +
> will get you the same result.
> 
> My guess is that sh discards arguments starting with + so effectively
> you are doing just /bin/sh. This is on SunOS 3.4.

I tried

    /bin/sh + +
and
    /bin/csh + +

and got the date command's output from both.  Looks to me like a parsing
error in CSH and SH.

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Gregg Wonderly
Department of Computing and Information Sciences
Oklahoma State University

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