cygwin-bash compat/regression bug... startup line prob

[Linda Walsh <cygwin@tlinx.org>]

Bob McGowan wrote:

> >> Because you weren't running /bin/bash at that point in time, but
> >> /usr/bin/bash.  Again, you snipped the relevant portion of your original
> > ----
> > No...I was... the output at the top was from "t.sh", which had
> > #!/bin/bash.
> >
> > But the error message says /usr/bin/bash.
----
   That's why I commented that something was bogus.  Here it is
again:
law.Bliss> cat /tmp/t.sh
#!/bin/bash -u
echo -e "Hello World\n"

law.Bliss> t.sh
/usr/bin/bash: - : invalid option
Usage:  /usr/bin/bash [GNU long option] [option] ...
       /usr/bin/bash [GNU long option] [option] script-file ...
GNU long options:
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The reason the above fails... (I got it to work).. is that if there is a space
on the line after the "-u", that also fails.

I didn't deliberately put one there, but that it no longer handles
separate options is an evolution of software devolution.

But NOTE -- the above error claims it is coming from /usr/bin/bash.
That's not my login shell nor on the shebang line.

That's cygwin-black-magic... converting all /bin paths to /usr/bin...even
shells?...


>
>
> Regarding how your script is executed:
>
> If you do "$ bash t.sh", the she-bang line is *ignored*, it's just a
> comment in this case.
---
I'm aware of that -- I was noting that the alternate ways of invoking it
made a difference.  Not that I didn't understand why.






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