Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 13:22:04 -0500 From: Vincent Stemen <bsd@hightek.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: /bin/sh bug Message-ID: <20040417182204.GA26559@quark.hightek.org>
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Another sh bug I think.
If you dot in a file from a script, $1 in the child script inherits
it's value from the parent and the arguments do not get passed.
This is on FreeBSD-5.1-RELEASE on the i386 platform.
The following examples compare the behavior to bash and zsh. Zsh has
the most appropriate bahavior as it also properly sets $0.
$ cat test1
echo "$0: \$1 = [$1]"
. ./test2 test2arg
$ cat test2
echo "$0: \$1 = [$1]"
$ sh ./test1 foo
./test1: $1 = [foo]
./test1: $1 = [foo]
$ bash ./test1 foo
./test1: $1 = [foo]
./test1: $1 = [test2arg]
$ zsh ./test1 foo
./test1: $1 = [foo]
./test2: $1 = [test2arg]
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