On Fri, March 25, 2005 8:26 pm, Eric Blake said: > True enough. And that points out another bug - echo "$0" may fail if $0 > starts with -, it should be echo -- "$0". Isn't portable shell > programming fun?
Sorry that this has taken so long, but I'm just getting around to adding all the fixes emailed wrt /etc/profile. I tried the above, and it broke so I checked the man pages, <quote> `echo' writes each given STRING to standard output, with a space between each and a newline after the last one. Synopsis: echo [OPTION]... [STRING]... The program accepts the following options. Also see *Note Common options::. Options must precede operands, and the normally-special argument `--' has no special meaning and is treated like any other STRING. </quote> so, I'm afraid that echo -- "${0}" won't work. J. -- 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/