On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Kenneth Stephen wrote: > Hi, > > I have the following script (a.ksh) : > > $ cat a.ksh > #!/usr/bin/ksh -x > > echo $* > getopts abc var > > echo $? > echo $var > echo $OPTIND > echo $OPTARG > > shift > > echo $* > getopts abc var > > echo $? > echo $var > echo $OPTIND > echo $OPTARG > > When run on AIX ksh, it produces the following (expected output) : > > $ ./a.ksh -a something > + echo -a something > -a something > + getopts abc var > + echo 0 > 0 > + echo a > a > + echo 2 > 2 > + echo > > + shift > + echo something > something > + getopts abc var > + echo 1 > 1 > + echo ? > ? > + echo 2 > 2 > + echo > > On Cygwin (pdksh 5.2.14-3), it produces : > > bash-2.05b$ ./a.ksh -a something > + echo -a something > -a something > + getopts abc var > + echo 0 > 0 > + echo a > a > + echo 2 > 2 > + echo > > + shift > + echo something > something > + getopts abc var > ./a.ksh[14]: -m: unknown option > + echo 0 > 0 > + echo ? > ? > + echo 2 > 2 > + echo > > Why is it dying like this?
This seems to be PDksh-specific, but not Cygwin-specific, behavior -- it does the same for me on Linux. Feel free to report it to the upstream maintainer (see <http://web.cs.mun.ca/~michael/pdksh/> for bug reporting instructions). Thanks for the report, I'll also investigate as time permits. Igor Pechtchanski, the Cygwin PDksh maintainer -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/