Re: inconsistent treatment of backslash-bang

[Paul Jarc]

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.nz> wrote:
> pk wrote:
>> This is documented in man bash, and only happens in interactive shells (not
>> scripts).
>
> I just tried putting my six cases into a script, and I get exactly the same
> sort of output as interactively.

How did you invoke the script?  If you do ". ./script", then the
script commands are being run in the interactive shell, so you'll get
the same behavior as if you typed them directly.  "./script" will run
those commands in a new, non-interactive shell.


paul