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| From: | Chet Ramey |
| Subject: | Re: 'for name' does not work correctly |
| Date: | Sat, 11 Sep 2004 17:56:30 -0400 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 |
Dave Bodenstab wrote:
Machine Type: i386-unknown-freebsd4.8
Bash Version: 3.0
Patch Level: 13
Release Status: release
Description:
'for name' does not assign positional arguments to 'name'
This has been reported before. It's the result of a bug in bison-1.75, which translates "\"$@\"" in parse.y to "\"\"" in y.tab.c. Newer versions of bison fix the problem. Chet
Repeat-By:
Create test script:
#!/usr/local/bin/bash
echo \> \$#=$#, $*
for arg
do
echo \> arg=$arg
done
set -- one two three
echo \> \$#=$#, $*
for arg
do
echo \> arg=$arg
done
Run:
$ bug a
> $#=1, a
> arg=
> $#=3, one two three
> arg=
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