Aqumix.107
net.bugs.4bsd,net.bugs.v7
utzoo!decvax!ittvax!qumix!msc
Fri May 7 15:09:44 1982
Bourne Shell bug?
Doing the following on my 4.1bsd system caused strange things to
happen.
1) Create a shell script "test" containing
#! /bin/sh
echo [$1] [$2] [$3] [$4]
2) Create a file "test.tmp" containing
"-a" "-o 0.5" ""
3) Give the command
test "-a" "-o 0.5" ""
This results in the output
[-a] [-o 0.5] [] []
which is as expected.
4) Give the command
cat test.tmp
which gives the expected output
"-a" "-o 0.5" ""
5) Give the command
test `cat test.tmp`
which should give the same result as 3 since test.tmp
contains the same text as the command tail used in 3.
Instead the output is
["-a"] ["-o] [0.5"] [""]
Notice how the "-o 0.5" argument has been split into two arguments
somewhere along the way. Also notice that the quotation marks have
not been stripped off. I would appreciate a fix or some way
to get around the problem.
Mark Callow
Qume Corp.
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