Re: Is it normal for `bash -s foo` not to make 1=foo available from ~/.bashrc?

[Chet Ramey]

On 3/28/17 12:43 PM, Torka Noda wrote:

> Actually, shouldn't `bash -s`, without any command fed to its
> stdin, exit immediately, anyway...?

No. Why? It reads and executes commands from its standard input, which is
in most cases, the terminal.  However, `bash -s foo </dev/null' should exit
immediately.

> Plus there is
> apparently no way to get the full list of arguments used to
> call Bash (although some can be found with `set` or `shopt`),
> even after initialization, which seems to me more problematic,
> although if this was never the case, the need probably isn't
> that strong for it either...

No Bourne-style shell provides this feature.

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