From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Message-ID: <7126271516.20010901051116@proweb.co.uk> To: 9fans <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Cc: rc@hawkwind.utcs.utoronto.ca In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [9fans] unix RC shell bug Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 05:11:16 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: e830b032-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 after hours of not noticing one of my variables was a list and not a string (it's 5am I've been on this since 10pm!) I eventually got to this sorry state. in good ol' plan9 cpu% t=(1 2 3 6 7) cpu% echo $#t 5 cpu% echo $"t 1 2 3 6 7 in /usr/local/bin/rc (ver 1.6) on FreeBSD (ver 4.2-RELEASE) ; t=(1 2 3 6 7) ; echo $#t 5 ; echo $"t syntax error just fyi