On 8/22/2017 3:07 PM, cyg Simple wrote: > On 8/22/2017 1:13 PM, Eliot Moss wrote: >> On 8/22/2017 1:07 PM, cyg Simple wrote: >>> On 8/22/2017 11:18 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >>>> On 22 August 2017 at 10:47, Eliot Moss <m...@cs.umass.edu> wrote: >>>>> On 8/22/2017 10:31 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >> >>> Are you talking bash as sh or bash as bash? Bash as sh will expand >>> those aliases. But you should study >>> http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/aliases.html for all your scripts. Are >>> there environment variables that could affect the outcome? >> >> Since the OP has a #! /bin/bash line at the top of his script, I think >> he means bash. However, running the script with sh explicitly does act >> as you describe, e.g.: sh myscript x y z ... in contrast to: myscript x >> y z. >> > > There's also --posix and set -o posix which will cause bash to perform > as the OP reports. I'm guessing this to be used in the bash startup > files in a global fashion on those systems that you're not having to > specify to use aliases. > > https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Bash-POSIX-Mode.html#Bash-POSIX-Mode >
And --enable-strict-posix-default configure option turns this setting on by default. I'll leave it up to the Cygwin maintainer to decide if it should be used. -- cyg Simple -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
