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sr #107863: Error in man page describing -c option as taking an argument.

Submitter:  Kaz Kylheku <kkylheku>
Submitted:  Thu 03 Nov 2011 04:03:59 PM UTC
   
 
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Tue 22 Nov 2011 12:35:06 AM UTC, comment #1: 

Not quite.  I agree that the description of the option is slightly wrong, though the bash man page mirrors the traditional Unix shell manual page description (through SVR4.2, at least).

However, the argument is not interpreted as a script.  It's a string, parsed and executed as one or more commands, similarly to `eval'.

Thanks for the report.  I'll update the man page and texinfo documentation.

Chet Ramey <chet>
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Thu 03 Nov 2011 04:03:59 PM UTC, original submission:  

This was reported by Geoff Clare in the comp.unix.shell newsgroup on November 3, 2011.

The bash man page says:


       -c string If the -c option is present,  then  commands  are  read  from
                 string.   If  there  are arguments after the string, they are
                 assigned to the positional parameters, starting with $0.


This is not actually how the option works.

It's an option with no argument, which causes the first non-option argument to be interpreted as a script, which can be seen if we add more options. (Consistent with POSIX.)


$ bash -c -x asdf
+ asdf
bash: asdf: command not found


Kaz Kylheku <kkylheku>

 

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