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Xref: sserve comp.unix.user-friendly:2761 comp.unix.solaris:21483 comp.unix.questions:53986 comp.unix.programmer:19434 comp.unix.misc:13591 comp.unix.aux:15091 comp.unix.bsd:14659 comp.unix.aix:42854 Newsgroups: comp.unix.user-friendly,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.aux,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.aix Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news.uh.edu!uuneo.neosoft.com!nmtigw!peter From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: Xtree for Unix!? Message-ID: <id.5Z8C1.49B@nmti.com> Sender: peter@nmti.com (peter da silva) Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI References: <Cuo63D.BE1@zimmer.CSUFresno.EDU> <3511@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov> <331hnd$8r@spock.isar.muc.de> <332ftf$n5j@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> Distribution: inet Date: Fri, 19 Aug 1994 20:22:05 GMT Lines: 13 In article <332ftf$n5j@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>, Chet Ramey <chet@odin.INS.CWRU.Edu> wrote: > Posix.2 says the args that follow `string' in `-c string' should become > arguments $0...$N, not $1...$N, and this is what bash does. Your program > seems to be depending on a quirk of the BSD/386 /bin/sh. Then POSIX.2 is broken. In every other context $0 is the program or function name and $1..$N are the arguments. -- Peter da Silva `-_-' Network Management Technology Incorporated 'U` 1601 Industrial Blvd. Sugar Land, TX 77478 USA +1 713 274 5180 "Hast Du heute schon Deinen Wolf umarmt?"