[tex-live] Re: TeX Live UNIX shell scripts
Nelson H. F. Beebe
beebe@math.utah.edu
Tue, 16 Apr 2002 11:27:11 -0600 (MDT)
Thomas Esser <te@informatik.uni-hannover.de> writes on Tue, 16 Apr 2002
18:17:29 +0200:
>> Does anyone know a system / platforms where /bin/sh has this bug?
>> I guess that a broken system reports 1 for the following code:
>> /bin/sh -c 'set x "$@"; shift; echo $#' sh
I just tried it on 16+ platforms: on all but two (including the flawed
Apple Darwin (== MacOS X) /bin/sh), it reported 0. However, on
Compaq/DEC Alpha OSF/1 4.0 and 5.0, it reports 1.
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