On 3/28/17 1:13 PM, Torka Noda wrote: > Modifying positional parameters with `set --` isn't supposed to > modify the shell's behavior live, anyway. The command line is > already parsed and options already set. So Bash should always > use the original arguments specified on the command line, to > pass them to the possible commands fed to its stdin, regardless > of whether position parameters which could be made available to > Bash initialization files are modified.
This is not correct. There is only one set of positional parameters (putting aside shell functions for a second), and `set' can modify them. Unless you mean something different that I do not see. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/