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Article #1332More csh bugs
From: Michael "Ford" Ditto
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 1989 00:56
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 1989 00:56
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Here's a long-standing csh bug that some people might not know about ...
It happens when a variable whose name ends in a digit is referenced with
${}.
% echo ${foo1} # should generate 'Undefined variable'
Variable syntax. # gets this instead
% history 2 # look at the history
1 echo 1${foo} # what???
2 history 2
%
Here's one I just discovered ... It seems that when 'alias' is run with
no args, the alias names are printf-expanded with random arguments.
% alias k% 'kill %' # set up an alias
% alias k% # see if it worked
kill % # looks fine
% alias # now, look at all our alias
h history
k^@ kill % # hmmm...
% alias a%fb 'echo hello' # here's another fun one
% alias
a0.000000b echo hello # sounds like a way to get a SIGFPE sometime.
%
Isn't csh fun?
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"The number of Unix installations (In Real Life: Mike Ditto)
has grown to 10, with more expected." ford@kenobi.cts.com
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2nd Edition, June, 1972. ditto@cbmvax.commodore.com
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From: ditto@cbmvax.UUCP (Michael "Ford" Ditto)
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Subject: More csh bugs
Summary: echo ${foo1}; alias k% 'kill %'; alias
Keywords: get the korn shell :-)
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Date: 1 Feb 89 00:56:25 GMT
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Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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