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tcsh `` substitution

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Carr)
Tue Mar 20 04:33:43 1990

To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 90 04:33:31 EST
From: John Carr <jfc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>

A transcript tells it better than I can:

	% echo `cat`
	^C
	[1] 495
	% jobs
	[1]    ` ... `
	% jobs
	%

I don't know why tcsh thinks there is a job started as a result of
this.  It doesn't happen with real commands, only with the shell
builtin "echo" as far as I can tell.

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