Re: Posix and command line parameters

[Francis Montagnac]

Hi.

In article <3932b777.0202242237.7e52f0b9@posting.google.com>,
 tingashilo@yahoo.com (T Shilo) writes:
...
>On machine2, running the same bash version, it shows:
>    >script param
>    I got 1 parameters
>    > script
>    I got 1 parameters.

I guess that you have the BASH_ENV variable set to some file name on
machine2, and that this file modifies the positional parameters.

To prevent that kind of side effects you should change the first line 
of your script to set the privileged mode of bash with:

#!/bin/bash -p

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