[13727] in Athena Bugs
7.7TOM: tellme
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Wed Aug 9 21:10:15 1995
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 1995 21:10:04 -0400
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Cc: mhbraun@MIT.EDU
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 1995 16:22:48 EDT
From: Arthur E Housinger <mouse@MIT.EDU>
System name: lola-granola
Type and version: NetBSD 1.0A
What were you trying to do?
Exercise tellme.
What's wrong:
It's not very robust:
[lola-granola!jhawk] ~> /afs/athena/system/config/tellme/arch/share/bin/tellme life "the universe"
I don't know about life.
[: universe: unknown operand
What should have happened:
The author of the script should quote shell variables in a consistent
fashion, eg:
while [ $1 ]; do
case "$1" in
Should be:
while [ "$1" ]; do
case "$1" in
Further, the script lacks RCS tags.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
[insert random orange document reference here(tm) ]
