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To: "Jean-Paul de Gier" <j DOT de DOT gier AT industrious DOT nl>
Cc: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: bash: bug in parameter passing
References: <018e01c0dd35$c02836c0$794988d4 AT riih223>
Cc: Karel Sprenger <karel DOT sprenger AT compaq DOT com>
Organization: Compaq Computer Corporation
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From: Karel Sprenger <karel DOT sprenger AT compaq DOT com>
Date: 15 May 2001 17:03:51 +0200
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Hi,

>>> On Tue, 15 May 2001 13:48:17 +0200, Jean-Paul de Gier (Jean-Paul)
>>> wrote:
Jean-Paul> 
Jean-Paul> Hi,
Jean-Paul> Consider the following script:
Jean-Paul> 
Jean-Paul> #test 
Jean-Paul> echo parameter $1
Jean-Paul> 
Jean-Paul> which is called by this script:
Jean-Paul> 
Jean-Paul> # testparam
Jean-Paul> echo testparam $1
Jean-Paul>   test param1
Jean-Paul> 
Jean-Paul> Notice the dot in front of the call of script test.
Jean-Paul> If you run the last script, say testparam 123
Jean-Paul> then you will see:
Jean-Paul> testparam 123
Jean-Paul> parameter 123
Jean-Paul> 
Jean-Paul> instead of:
Jean-Paul> testparam 123
Jean-Paul> parameter param1
Jean-Paul> 
Jean-Paul> I would say that this is a bug.
Jean-Paul> 

With Bash 2.05.0(6) I get the expected rather than the erroneous
result.  However I had to change the third line of script testparam to
read ". ./test" else bash would complain it couldn't find
/usr/bin/test.

Cheers,
Karel

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