[tex-live] Re: TeX Live UNIX shell scripts

[Nelson H. F. Beebe]

Thomas Esser <te@informatik.uni-hannover.de> writes on Tue, 16 Apr 2002
18:17:29 +0200:

>> Does anyone know a system / platforms where /bin/sh has this bug?
>> I guess that a broken system reports 1 for the following code:
>>   /bin/sh -c 'set x "$@"; shift; echo $#' sh

I just tried it on 16+ platforms: on all but two (including the flawed
Apple Darwin (== MacOS X) /bin/sh), it reported 0.  However, on
Compaq/DEC Alpha OSF/1 4.0 and 5.0, it reports 1.

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