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From: Bernd Eggink <eggink@uni-hamburg.de>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: Positional parameters and sourced files
Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 11:10:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000528111017.B392@eggink3.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1000528003111.ZM22806@candle.brasslantern.com>; from schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com on Sun, May 28, 2000 at 12:31:10AM +0000

On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 12:31:10AM +0000, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> Put these commands in /tmp/test.zsh:
> 
> 	echo $# $*
> 	set a b c d e
> 
> Now:
> 
> zsh% source /tmp/test.zsh ; echo $#
> 0
> 5
> zsh% source /tmp/test.zsh arg ; echo $#
> 1 arg
> 0
> 
> 
> So "set ..." in a sourced script changes the global positional parameters
> when the script is called with no arguments, but if it was called with any
> arguments then it changes only the locals.  This seems a bit odd.
> 
> Bash, on the other hand, always changes the global positional parameters,
> and further it throws away the local ones when the global ones are set.  I
> don't have ksh handy to try.
 
ksh behaves the same way as zsh. IMHO the bash behavior is the most
reasonable one.

Regards,
Bernd

-- 
Bernd Eggink
Regionales Rechenzentrum der Uni Hamburg
eggink@uni-hamburg.de
http://www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/eggink/BEggink.html


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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-05-28  0:31 Bart Schaefer
2000-05-28  9:10 ` Bernd Eggink [this message]
2000-05-28 17:16   ` Bart Schaefer

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