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

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From: Felix Lee
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1989 10:35

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addendum, it looks like a side effect of my 'cd' alias
	alias cd  'cd \!*; set argv = (`dirs`); shift'
so the statement
	echo `cd /tmp; echo *`
causes csh to do backquote substitution inside backquote substitution,
a condition that obviously never should occur, so dobackp() kindly
abort()s the child process.  Sigh.
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Felix Lee	flee@shire.cs.psu.edu	*!psuvax1!flee

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From: flee@shire.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee)
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Subject: Re: csh, echo `cd /tmp; echo *` dumps core
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