Aucbvax.5153
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Thu Nov 12 23:10:42 1981
Re:  Uninterpreted command line
>From decvax!duke!unc!smb@Berkeley Thu Nov 12 22:32:53 1981
In-real-life: Steven M. Bellovin

The v7 /bin/sh doesn't give any 'no match' errors; it merely passes
the original string along.  But a more serious problem is redirection
and pipe characters, which are acted on before the program can see
anything.  I'm constantly cursing out the shell when I try

       grep ^foobar xyz

and I'm told 'foobar: not found'.

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