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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re^2: the file with the empty name "" (was: csh core dumping)
Message-ID: <1851@piraat.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 29 Dec 88 01:15:03 GMT
References: <2294@bucsb.UUCP> <659@sbsvax.UUCP> <1847@piraat.cs.vu.nl> <6936@xanth.cs.odu.edu>
Organization: V.U. Informatica, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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tadguy@cs.odu.edu (Tad Guy) writes:
\>greim@sbsvax.UUCP (Michael Greim) writes:
\>\... When you issue an
\>\open or exec with an empty string, you succeed and get the first file in your
\>\current directory, which almost certainly is '.', the directory itself.

\In article <1847@piraat.cs.vu.nl>, maart@cs (Maarten Litmaath) writes:
\>The file `-csh' is a symbolic link to /bin/csh.
\>	% ls -a | head -3
\>	-csh
\>	.
\>	..

\This is misleading.  Unless told otherwise, ls sorts its output.

Right. I forgot to add something to my `proof by intimidation':

	:-)
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Lee Harvey Oswald was a patsy.        |Maarten Litmaath @ VU Amsterdam:
                       Or a superman. |maart@cs.vu.nl, mcvax!botter!maart