[PLUG] bash question

[Denis Heidtmann]

I just found this:
$ ls -l /bin/sh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2009-06-10 16:51 /bin/sh -> dash

On another system sh -> bash, so that I just assumed...

what is dash, he asks, and wonders if it bears on this issue.


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From: Denis Heidtmann <denis.heidtmann at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 11:44 AM
Subject: bash question
To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help, civil and on-topic" <
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I have a very simple bash script which wants an argument.  I would like to
source it.  I find that if I source it from another script using its
relative path it works fine--the argument is received.  If I source it using
its full path no argument is received.  A simple test is:

script1.sh:
#! /bin/sh
echo "Argument = $@"

script2.sh:
#!/bin/sh
. <full path>/script1.sh full
. <relative path>/script1.sh relative

The result show no argument received in the full case.

Ideas?