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Aucbvax.5153 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!unix-wizards Thu Nov 12 23:10:42 1981 Re: Uninterpreted command line >From decvax!duke!unc!smb@Berkeley Thu Nov 12 22:32:53 1981 In-real-life: Steven M. Bellovin

The v7 /bin/sh doesn't give any 'no match' errors; it merely passes the original string along. But a more serious problem is redirection and pipe characters, which are acted on before the program can see anything. I'm constantly cursing out the shell when I try

grep ^foobar xyz

and I'm told 'foobar: not found'.

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