severity 713805 wishlist tags 713805 + upstream wontfix quit Hi,
Jilles Tjoelker wrote: > In Debian bug #713805, you wrote: >> [dot ignores parameters after the script pathname] > > POSIX does not specify what happens if dot is given more than one > parameter, and dash simply ignores the excess. I think it is unlikely > that dash will add the extension of temporarily setting the excess (if > not empty) as the positional parameters. > > You can set the positional parameters using 'set -- <parameters>' before > sourcing the script, or you can create a function that sources the > script and gets passed the desired parameters. This isn't explained yet in the dash(1) manpage under ". file", so keeping the bug as a reminder until that happens. Thanks, both. Sincerely, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
