On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 19:22:10 +0100 Felix Schulte wrote: > On 2/17/06, Glenn Fowler <gsf at research.att.com> wrote: > > > > expanding ! is not original ksh88 behavior > > it is not posix behavior > > is it documented sun behavior? > No. I suspect it is a bug in Sun's /usr/bin/ksh
thanks I'm exploring this offline with the original reporter the thought now is that the wrong line was implicated in the error message and the ! is a red herring
