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From: ramsdell@LINUS.MITRE.ORG
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: :${abc?abc} exits
Message-ID: <9001051740.AA12934@huxley.mitre.org>
Date: 5 Jan 90 17:40:29 GMT
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Distribution: gnu
Organization: GNUs
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bash$ :${abc?abc}
abc: bad substitution
bash$ :${abc?abc}
abc

Process shell exited abnormally with code 1
#### Here is what sh does:
bash$ sh
$ :${abc?abc}
abc: abc
$ 
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John