Re: bash 2.04.11(1)-release weirdness if no #! line

[Chet Ramey]

> You don't know how long this took me to track down.
> 
> Bash version:
>       GNU bash, version 2.04.11(1)-release (i386-redhat-linux-gnu)
>       Copyright 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> 
> System:
>       Redhat GNU/Linux 7.0.
> 
> To reproduce, put the following in a file named foo:
> 
>       cat "$@"
> 
> Make it executable.  Note that there is no #! line.  Here's what
> happens:
> 
>       Script started on Tue Mar 27 17:28:06 2001
>       bash2-2.04$ ./foo foo > /dev/null
>       bash2-2.04$ ./foo < foo > /dev/null
>       stty: standard input: Inappropriate ioctl for device
>       bash2-2.04$ exit
>       
>       Script done on Tue Mar 27 17:28:19 2001
> 
> If I add a #! /bin/sh at the top, I no longer get the error message.

I can't reproduce it with my current version of bash-2.05 on RedHat 6.1,
nor with bash-2.04.  I'd check to see whether or not your startup files
are being run, since the error message is coming from `stty'.

-- 
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Chet Ramey, CWRU    chet@po.CWRU.Edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/