Re: user/3170: ksh bug

The following reply was made to PR user/3170; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Ted Unangst <tedu@stanford.edu>
To: veins@skreel.org
Cc: gnats@openbsd.org
Subject: Re: user/3170: ksh bug
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 14:04:42 -0800 (PST)

 On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 veins@skreel.org wrote:  

> in ksh, if # is concatenated to the command, the shell doesnt see it
 

 of course. man ksh: "`#', if used at the beginning of a word, introduces  a comment". ls# doesn't use # at the beginning of a word; it's not a  comment.    

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