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From: brianc@cognos.uucp (Brian Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Trick question
Message-ID: <1620@cognos.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 20-Oct-87 11:34:13 EST
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Posted: Tue Oct 20 11:34:13 1987
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References: <666@portofix.liu.se>
Reply-To: brianc@cognos.UUCP (Brian Campbell)
Organization: Cognos Incorporated, Ottawa, Canada
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In article <666@portofix.liu.se> kjepo@portofix.liu.se (Kjell Post) writes:
! 	% cat > +
!         date
!         ^D
!         % chmod +x +
!         % +
!         $                         -- entered Bourne-shell

   Same thing happens to me -- on 4.2BSD and XENIX 2.1.3.  A rehash
doesn't help any, but typing ./+ does execute the script as expected.
Maybe + is some weird builtin alias?  I'd sure like to know what's going
on ...
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