strange shell output using tcsh under Cygwin

Will Parsons wbp@nodomain.invalid
Mon Nov 6 19:14:00 GMT 2017


Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Will Parsons!
>
>> I thought it would be nice to write a simple script to make this more
>> comprehensible by breaking the path into separate lines, and so wrote the
>> following trivial script:
>
>>    #!/bin/sh
>>    echo $PATH | tr ':' '\n'
>
> Try
>
>   echo "$PATH"
>
> next time.
>
> Never trust random variables to be acceptable for command parameters.

Nice thought, and indeed I had thought of it.  It makes no difference,
though.

-- 
Will


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