I appreciate the links and information. I prematurely assumed it was a bug as I am used to the behavior of sh on NetBSD which does not require enclosing positional parameters. I believe it is adequately expressed in the manual page, I just need to improve my reading comprehension. Thanks.
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 3:01 AM, Andreas Schwab <sch...@linux-m68k.org>wrote: > Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com> writes: > > > For the future, the sh specification at > > http://www.unix.org/2008edition/ (free registration required) > > http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/ > (no registration required) > > Andreas. > > -- > Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org > GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 > "And now for something completely different." > -- PGP Key ID 0x1AE8B32A<http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBF2AE4D81AE8B32A>