Re: [tlug] Bashing away at Unix

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

SL Baur writes:

 > It's defined yes, but what does your system do when you run the script:
 > 
 > #! /bin/sh
 > echo foo ^ bar

chibi:git-staging steve$ echo foo ^ bar
foo ^ bar
chibi:git-staging steve$

 > The correct answer probably is that you see "bar: not found".  Do
 > you know why?

I don't know but will hazard a guess: buggy history expansion.  man is
such a wonderful resource. :-)