csh, echo `cd /tmp; echo *` dumps core

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From: Felix Lee
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1989 10:09

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% echo `cd /tmp; echo *`
coredumps in every BSD variant I've tried (Vax 4.3, SunOS 4.x, IBM/4.3).
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