On 0, Alex Malinovich <demonbane@the-love-shack.net> wrote: > On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 22:06, Craig Dickson wrote: > > I cannot reproduce your symptoms. Whether I type your code in at the > > shell prompt or run it in a script, it always behaves correctly. > > > > You don't say what shell you're using (or what version); my tests were > > performed using the version of bash 2.05a.0(1)-release from the Sid > > package bash_2.05a-11. > > GNU bash, version 2.05a.0(1)-release (i386-pc-linux-gnu) > > as returned by bash --version > > I just tried something else and now it's even stranger. If I don't > specify a shell in the script, it works correctly. However using > #!/bin/sh or #!/bin/bash results in errors. That's even stranger than > the exit code being returned incorrectly. ls -l /bin/sh /bin/bash what does it say? Are they the same executable as reported by: grep $USER /etc/passwd or whatever passwd you use? Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide Never be irreplacable: If you are irreplacable then you are unpromotable. Get my GPG public key: https://pinky.its.adelaide.edu.au/~tkcook/tom.cook-at-adelaide.edu.au
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