From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 14 21:21: 5 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED8AD37B401 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 21:21:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from web20310.mail.yahoo.com (web20310.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.226.91]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A3D9C43F5F for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 21:21:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from i18rabbit@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20030115052103.5455.qmail@web20310.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [208.151.119.232] by web20310.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 21:21:03 PST Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 21:21:03 -0800 (PST) From: Chad Kline Subject: sh sourcing bug? test bug? To: questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG fbsd 4.7 SCRIPT --- echo 1:$1 echo 2:$2 --- COMMAND LINE --- . ./script x y --- OUTPUT --- 1: 2: --- shouldn't the output be: 1:x 2:y ??? in bash, "x y" arguments work as expected, but in FBSD 4.7 and NBSD 1.6L, the arguments get trashed. ps. i used slackware about 7 years ago, and quickly switched to FBSD, hacking NetBSD now and then. recently, i thought i'd give linux a spin again with RedHat - and man - heh - it didn't take long to realize how "spoiled" i had gotten with quality FBSD + ports. it's definitely an OS to get spoiled by. i hope it always keeps it's designs of stability, reliability, flexibility, modularity, and efficiency. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message