[comp.unix.questions] More challenges with stuff between slashes

ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson) (10/24/89)

It seems that awk isn't the only program that has trouble with stuff between
slashes.  In awk's case it was "/=/"; for sh and ksh (or is it csh?). . .

	Script started on Mon Oct 23 13:18:48 1989
	elsie$ /bin/sh
	$ /bin/echo /e*/
	/e*/
	$ exit
	elsie$ /usr/local/bin/ksh
	elsie$ /bin/echo /e*/
	/e*/
	elsie$ exit
	elsie$ /bin/csh
	{elsie:1} /bin/echo /e*/
	/etc/ /export/
	{elsie:2} exit
	{elsie:3} elsie$ exit

	script done on Mon Oct 23 13:19:16 1989
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