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From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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Subject: Re: Interesting bash bug - anyone else see this?
To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 23:42:07 +0200 (MET DST)
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In-Reply-To: <199604181800.EAA06384@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Apr 19, 96 04:00:51 am
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As Bruce Evans wrote:

> This works fine here because my `more' is aliased to `less' like it should
> be :-).  `/bin/ls -lt /usr/src/lib/libc/obj/ | /usr/bin/more' fails in much
> the under bash, sh and csh.  bash gives better error messages but the pipe
> always breaks.  I don't have tcsh installed.

Our more is basically a less.  I can reproduce the problem for less,
too.  (Not surprising.)  I can also reproduce the problem for /bin/sh,
but not for tcsh.

I can't seem to reproduce the problem for ``sh && less''. :-)

weird...
-- 
cheers, J"org

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