From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4883 invoked from network); 9 Jun 1997 17:49:56 -0000 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 9 Jun 1997 17:49:56 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA25957; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 13:29:01 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 13:29:01 -0400 (EDT) From: (Zoltan T. Hidvegi) Message-Id: <9706091732.AA18536@belgium.fishkill.ibm.com> Subject: Re: zsh does not execute skripts on AIX? In-Reply-To: <9706091141.AA12665@tchibm7.chemie.uni-karlsruhe.de> from Marco Kattannek at "Jun 9, 97 01:41:55 pm" To: marcok@tchibm7.chemie.uni-karlsruhe.de (Marco Kattannek) Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 13:32:30 -0400 (EDT) Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31H (25)] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"0xyWo1.0.WL6.Sr3dp"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/3225 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu > I have encountered a strange behavour of the zsh on AIX 3.2 . > The zsh (2.5 and 3.1) does not execute scripts that are passed to the > /bin/sh . The sh drops the error message: > : 0402-026 The specified data is not a valid identifier. Looks like there is some junk in the environment which confuses /bin/sh. I've never had such problems on AIX. Probably the program which calls zsh put something into the environment which sh cannot handle. Zsh just passes this down to sh while ksh probably filters this out. Zoltan