On 1/10/19 4:52 PM, Jeremy wrote: > Have you considered reading stdin into a string (if it's one line) or an > array (if it's more) and using `eval' on it? That obviously works better > if it's one line, but could be made to work on multiple lines. > > > We are trying to determine if the current shell supports passing positional > arguments to a script sourced by dot (.), and we are trying to do it in a > way that will work under pretty much any shell.
Bash does, but it's not portable. > If you can show me how to > do that with eval, then that would be great, even though in general I hate > to ship a script that uses eval. You have to do it yourself the old-fashioned way, using `set', if you want to restrict yourself to using `eval'. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/