[nycbug-talk] Optional Variable Assignments and Builtins in ``Simple Commands''

[Matthew Story]

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Jan Schaumann <jschauma at netmeister.org>wrote:

> Matthew Story <matthewstory at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I decided to take Jan's advice and "test all the things" in bash, dash
> and
> > FreeBSD sh:
>
> Nice follow-up!
>

One odd bit here is that the functionality for functions is the same as
built-ins per shell:

bash $ hi() { echo "$HI"; }
bash $ HI=HELLO hi
HELLO
bash $ echo "$HI"

dash $ hi() { echo "$HI"; }
dash $ HI=HELLO hi
HELLO
dash $ echo "$HI"
HELLO
freebsd sh $ hi() { echo "$HI"; }
freebsd sh $ HI=HELLO hi
HELLO
freebsd sh $ echo "$HI"
HELLO

whereas the specification only exempts special built-ins from setting
current environment.  I think this is likely an omission in the
specification, I have submitted this as a bug to the Austin Group

http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=562


>
> -Jan
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-- 
regards,
matt
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