On Tue, 31 Mar 2015 15:39:13 -0500, John McKown wrote: > Hum, on my system, I get the message you are expecting. Transcript: <-snip->
And, here... This is puzzling. On an older Ubuntu 10.04 system I still use (I know, I know...) I get _no_ response. But the return code appears correct: jonesy@nix4:~$ uname -a Linux nix4 2.6.32-39-generic #86-Ubuntu SMP Mon Feb 13 21:47:32 UTC 2012 i686 GNU/Linux jonesy@nix4:~$ bash -version GNU bash, version 4.1.5(1)-release (i486-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. jonesy@nix4:~$ echo $? 0 jonesy@nix4:~$ "a nonexistent command with spaces" jonesy@nix4:~$ echo $? 127 jonesy@nix4:~$ However on my FreeBSD VPS it works as expected: [jonz~]uname -a FreeBSD xxx.xxxx.net 10.1-RELEASE-p6 FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE-p6 #0: Tue Feb 24 19:00:21 UTC 2015 [jonz~]bash -version GNU bash, version 4.3.33(0)-release (amd64-portbld-freebsd10.1) Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. [jonz~]echo $? 0 [jonz~]"a nonexistent command with spaces" -bash: a nonexistent command with spaces: command not found [jonz~]echo $? 127 [jonz~] Jonesy -- Marvin L Jones | Marvin | W3DHJ | linux 38.238N 104.547W | @ jonz.net | Jonesy | OS/2 * Killfiling google & XXXXbanter.com: jonz.net/ng.htm
