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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng,comp.unix.xenix,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Request for human interface design anecdotes
Message-ID: <9347@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 13-Nov-87 08:09:50 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 13 08:09:50 1987
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In article <9332@mimsy.UUCP> I wrote
>... The shells (csh, sh; I have not tried ksh) perform `<' and `>'
>redirection before `*' expansion.

Correction: only `csh' does this.

>	% cat * > together

This is also a bad example, as `cat' explicitly checks each input
file against cat's standard output, to prevent loops.  Using
something like `soelim' that does not have such checks will cause
such a loop.
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