Bug in /bin/csh: echo "`date`" in script

epmcmanus at csvax1.cs.tcd.ie epmcmanus at csvax1.cs.tcd.ie
Wed Jul 12 05:33:01 AEST 1989


There is a bug in the Ultrix 3.0 csh which was not present in Ultrix 2.2.
I would guess that support for 8-bit characters is the reason for the change.

The script:
	#!/bin/csh
	echo "`date`"
causes character 0xFF to be output before each character of the date.  The
same thing happens for other commands, and for:
	% csh -c 'echo "`date`"'
but not for:
	% echo "`date`"
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Eamonn McManus		emcmanus at cs.tcd.ie	uunet!mcvax!cs.tcd.ie!emcmanus



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