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Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:14:34 +0100
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From: Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Strange rc bug for the 9fans bug-squashing squad
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> in your test, try this
>
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0echo $#x

I tried that too, I'm getting the same result for an ifs of '' or ().

% ifs=3D() {x=3D`{cat f}; echo $#x}
2
% ifs=3D'' {x=3D`{cat f}; echo $#x}
2

I'm doing something else wrong?

uriel