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From: Vincent Stemen <bsd@hightek.org>
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Subject: /bin/sh bug
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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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