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From: Brian Tao <taob@io.org>
To: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" <kaleb@x.org>
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Subject: Re: /bin/sh thinks it's csh
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On Fri, 29 Sep 1995, Kaleb S. KEITHLEY wrote:
> 
> % sh -c 'echo $1' foo bar baz
> foo
> % csh -c 'echo $1' foo bar baz
> foo
> 
> POSIX.2 Section 4.56.3 says everyone else is right, and FreeBSD is ...
> not right.

    950726 has this beahviour too, which I always thought was correct.
Why would $1 represent anything other than the first argument in argv?
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Brian Tao <taob@io.org>
System Administrator, Internex Online Inc.
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"