In the last episode (Jan 14), Chad Kline said:
> fbsd 4.7
>
> SCRIPT
> ---
> echo 1:$1
> echo 2:$2
> ---
>
> COMMAND LINE
> ---
> . ./script x y
> ---
>
> OUTPUT
> ---
> 1:
> 2:
> ---
>
> shouldn't the output be:
> 1:x
> 2:y
Not sure. The sh defined at opengroup.org doesn't even have a dot
command. In FreeBSD's (and debian's) /bin/sh, each instance of "."
pushes the contents of the specified filename into the command stream.
It's more of an input redirection operator than a command. I don't
know what POSIX has to say about it.
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