From: Chet Ramey via TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org>
To: Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu>,
Rik Farrow <rik@rikfarrow.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: "Webster's Second on the Head of a Pin"?
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2025 09:28:16 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <229f78c9-d0a8-4897-a66b-d047206965b7@case.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKH6PiWRdQ0kxF6HAvrebnBccu97d1kudsFyn=KZCtOVcPR3Qw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 1/1/25 10:05 PM, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
> I think $IFS ranks at the top of Jim's cabinet of horrors.
Well, the Bourne shell's combination of importing IFS from the environment
and then using it to split all words was particularly lethal.
--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-01-02 14:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-12-29 2:53 [TUHS] " Royce Williams
2024-12-29 13:44 ` [TUHS] " Douglas McIlroy
2024-12-30 21:13 ` sjenkin
2024-12-31 16:37 ` Chet Ramey via TUHS
2025-01-01 15:02 ` Douglas McIlroy
2025-01-01 18:11 ` Rik Farrow
2025-01-02 3:05 ` Douglas McIlroy
2025-01-02 14:28 ` Chet Ramey via TUHS [this message]
2025-01-02 14:22 ` Chet Ramey via TUHS
2025-01-02 18:13 ` Rik Farrow
2025-01-02 19:47 ` Chet Ramey via TUHS
2024-12-29 16:05 ` Douglas McIlroy
2025-03-10 22:55 ` James Johnston
2025-03-11 0:23 ` Douglas McIlroy
2025-03-11 14:47 ` Jeff Johnson
2025-03-12 12:41 ` Douglas McIlroy
2024-12-30 0:37 ` Warren Toomey via TUHS
2024-12-30 2:07 ` Royce Williams
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