Subject: Re: bin/33472: /bin/sh does not expand "$@" correctly
To: None <gnats-admin@netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org, rillig@NetBSD.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 05/12/2006 19:55:02
The following reply was made to PR bin/33472; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: christos@zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas)
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org, rillig@NetBSD.org
Cc:
Subject: Re: bin/33472: /bin/sh does not expand "$@" correctly
Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 15:51:03 -0400
On May 12, 7:50pm, david@l8s.co.uk (David Laight) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: bin/33472: /bin/sh does not expand "$@" correctly
| The following reply was made to PR bin/33472; it has been noted by GNATS.
|
| From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
| To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
| Cc:
| Subject: Re: bin/33472: /bin/sh does not expand "$@" correctly
| Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 20:57:55 +0100
|
| On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 07:25:03PM +0000, rillig@NetBSD.org wrote:
| > >Number: 33472
| > >Category: bin
| > >Synopsis: /bin/sh does not expand "$@" correctly
| >
| > $ set -- "" ""
| > $ echo $#
| > 2
| > $ echo "$@" | sed s,\$,EOL,
| > EOL
| > $
|
| $ set -- a ""; echo "$@" | hexdump -C
| also fails to add a space following the 'a'.
Something is trimming traling spaces.
christos