Re^2: the file with the empty name "" (was: csh core dumping)

[Maarten Litmaath]

tadguy at cs.odu.edu (Tad Guy) writes:
\>greim at sbsvax.UUCP (Michael Greim) writes:
\>\... When you issue an
\>\open or exec with an empty string, you succeed and get the first file in your
\>\current directory, which almost certainly is '.', the directory itself.

\In article <1847 at piraat.cs.vu.nl>, maart at cs (Maarten Litmaath) writes:
\>The file `-csh' is a symbolic link to /bin/csh.
\>	% ls -a | head -3
\>	-csh
\>	.
\>	..

\This is misleading.  Unless told otherwise, ls sorts its output.

Right. I forgot to add something to my `proof by intimidation':

	:-)
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