dce@sony.com (David Elliott) (10/17/89)
When trying to use bash to replace sh on a 4.3BSD-based system, the C news distribution inews program broke due to a problem similar to the one shown below: Script started on Mon Oct 16 10:25:52 1989 icky 1>cat t.sh #!/bin/sh ( echo "foo" ; echo "bar" ) > bar.$$ ( echo "foo" ; echo "bar" ) \ > baz.$$ ( echo "foo" ; echo "bar" ) \ > baz.$$ rm -f bar.$$ baz.$$ icky 2>sh t.sh icky 3>bash t.sh in line 5: ` > baz.$$' in line 8: ` > baz.$$' icky 4>^D script done on Mon Oct 16 10:26:07 1989 David Elliott dce@sony.com | ...!{uunet,mips}!sonyusa!dce