read(1) garbage when input redirected from make incorrectly

[Jan Mikkelsen]

On 16/02/2010, at 10:49 PM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:

> The LHS of < is a command, the RHS is the name of the file to be read.
> After that, you can have further redirections, a command separator
> (semicolon, single or double ampersand, single or double pipe etc.), or,
> depending on context, various other stuff such as a paren, bracket,
> backquote etc.

A redirection doesn't terminate the argument list.

For example:

    echo a b < /dev/null c d

Produces:

    a b c d

And:

    < /etc/passwd cat

Will emit /etc/passwd to stdout.

Regards,

Jan Mikkelsen