Re: Double-quoting of commandline args (problem if $1 as a string of more than 1 char)

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Sat, 2 Apr 2005, root wheel wrote:

> Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do
> not change]:
> Machine: i586
> OS: linux
> Compiler: gcc -I/usr/src/packages/BUILD/bash-2.05b
> -L/usr/src/packages/BUILD/bash-2.05b/../readline-4.3
> Compilation CFLAGS:  -DPROGRAM='bash'
> -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i586' -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux'
> -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i586-suse-linux' -DCONF_VENDOR='suse'
> -DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -I.  -I. -I./include -I./lib
> -O2 -march=i586 -mcpu=i686 -fmessage-length=0
> -D_GNU_SOURCE -Wall -pipe -g -fbranch-probabilities
> uname output: Linux laptop 2.4.21-99-athlon #1 Wed Sep
> 24 13:34:32 UTC 2003 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
> Machine Type: i586-suse-linux
>
> Bash Version: 2.05b
> Patch Level: 0
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
>        [Detailed description of the problem,
> suggestion, or complaint.]
>
>
> Double-quoting of commandline args seems to be broken
> for $10 and above
> if $1 is a double-quoted string of more than one
> character.

  From the man page:

   Positional Parameters
       ....

       When a positional parameter consisting of more than a single  digit  is
       expanded, it must be enclosed in braces (see EXPANSION below).

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