Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 11:53:46 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: mike@networx.ie Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Bug in /bin/sh Message-ID: <199607021853.LAA08602@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <ECS9607021715A@networx.ie> from "Michael Ryan" at Jul 2, 96 05:20:15 pm
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> Can anybody confirm that there is a bug in /bin/sh in FreeBSD v2.1,
> which the following commands illustrate...
[ ... ]
I am suspicious of these lines:
> test $1 = abc && {
[ ... ]
> there is no command called "there" &
As far as I know, "there" isn't a command...
I suspect the backgrounding is causing the function to return twice.
The "&&" is odd.
Shell bugs are being collected by Joerg Wunsch (joerg@freebsd.org),
and he keeps threatening to fix them all in the problem report logs.
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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