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From: Chet Ramey <chet@odin.INS.CWRU.Edu>
To: Gerry.Tomlinson@newcastle.ac.uk
Cc: rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
Subject: Re: -s flag
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1992 10:03:11 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9207021403.AA15986.SM@odin.INS.CWRU.Edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Gerry.Tomlinson@newcastle.ac.uk of Thu, 2 Jul 1992 08:52:21 -0400

> ; rc  -c 'echo $*' one two
> one two
> ; ash -c 'echo $*' one two
> one two
> ; csh -c 'echo $*' one two
> one two
> ; ksh  -c 'echo $*' one two
> one two
> ; sh -c 'echo $*' one two
> two
> ; bash -c 'echo $*' one two
> 
> ;

This must be an old version of bash; my latest version gives

odin(2)$ ./bash -c 'echo $*' one two
one two

In any event, the standard seems to support the current rc
behavior.  I don't think you should worry about changing it.

Chet

--
``The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.''
	-- Arthur Schlesinger

Chet Ramey, Case Western Reserve University	Internet: chet@po.CWRU.Edu


             reply	other threads:[~1992-07-02 14:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1992-07-02 14:03 Chet Ramey [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1992-07-01 21:30 "D. Hugh Redelmeier"
1992-07-02 12:52 ` Gerry.Tomlinson
1992-06-30 15:29 haahr
1992-07-01 12:52 ` Gerry.Tomlinson
1992-07-01 21:14   ` Chris Siebenmann
1992-06-30 15:03 "D. Hugh Redelmeier"
1992-06-30  6:55 "D. Hugh Redelmeier"
1992-06-30  8:26 ` Matthew Farwell

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