Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 16:07:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Tao <taob@io.org> To: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" <kaleb@x.org> Cc: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: /bin/sh thinks it's csh Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.91.951001160611.19034V-100000@trepan.io.org> In-Reply-To: <199509292009.QAA29806@exalt.x.org>
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On Fri, 29 Sep 1995, Kaleb S. KEITHLEY wrote:
>
> % sh -c 'echo $1' foo bar baz
> foo
> % csh -c 'echo $1' foo bar baz
> foo
>
> POSIX.2 Section 4.56.3 says everyone else is right, and FreeBSD is ...
> not right.
950726 has this beahviour too, which I always thought was correct.
Why would $1 represent anything other than the first argument in argv?
--
Brian Tao <taob@io.org>
System Administrator, Internex Online Inc.
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"
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