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From: Len Giambrone <Len DOT Giambrone AT intersystems DOT com>
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Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 21:30:07 -0400
Subject: bash 4.1.10: SHELLOPTS questions -- different behavior between sh and bash
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Greetings.  I'm running the latest (as of a few days ago) Cygwin and bash.

Cygwin Package Information
Package              Version        Status
bash                 4.1.10-4       OK
cygwin               1.7.9-1        OK

If I set -o igncr, and then export SHELLOPTS as stated in /usr/share/doc/Cy=
gwin/bash.README:

4d. Added in the bash-3.2-2 release: export the environment variable
SHELLOPTS with igncr included in it.  It is read-only from within bash,
but you can set it before invoking bash; once in bash, it auto-tracks the
current state of 'set -o igncr'.  If exported, then all bash child
processes inherit the same option settings; with the exception added in
3.2.9-11 that certain interactive options are not inherited in
non-interactive use.

I get different behavior depending on whether I use bash or sh.  Further, I=
 only get an error message
if I have a script that calls a script:

$ cat foo
echo foo
./bar

$ cat bar
echo bar

$ set -o igncr
$ export SHELLOPTS

$ sh bar
bar
$ bash bar
bar

$ sh foo
foo
sh: SHELLOPTS: readonly variable
bar
$ bash foo
foo
bar

I know bash and sh are the same program which behaves differently depending=
 on how it's called.=20
Is this expected behavior?  Is there a way using sh to always avoid the err=
or message?

-Len



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