Re: bash is Bashed!

On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 05:13:43PM -0800, Fielder George Dowding wrote:
> Kevin Miller wrote:
> > Fielder George Dowding wrote:
> >> I have run into a strange situation (my workstation at the Mabel T.
> >> Caverly Senior Center) where bash does not act like, well, bash. Here
> >> are the symptoms:
> >>
> >> Type "set" to see all the environmental variables.
> >> 1. Regular user: a bash script scrolls ???
> >> 2. Root: the environmental variables are printed to screen.
> >> 3. Regular user after typing "sh" to get the old Borne Shell, normal
> >> results a number 2, above.
> >>
> >> I suspect there is a mis-configured something somewhere. Can anyone help?
> >
> > SUSE's always done that (well, at least as long as I've used it.) I
> > just tried on a Debian box and their script is even longer. But if you
> > do a:
> > set | more
> > you'll see the normal variables at the beginning. Not sure what the
> > script is doing but it's 'normal', i.e., part of the stock install I
> > believe...
> >
> > ...Kevin
>
> Wow! Yet another reason not to use SuSE! =:-)}}} Be that as it may, here
> is the background to my query:
>

< snip interesting history >

     I’m not sure I fully understand. I use SuSE and have no
     problem setting environment variables. "Set" isn’t the
     command to use, however, and indeed, dumps way to much info
     to the screen when invoked. But var=value certainly works
     (or export var=value).

     I have on occasion had scripts that somehow dump the entire
     environment as a by product of some action. Very annoying,
     and a by product of using "set" incorrectly, I seem to
     remember.

Rgds,

--
Mike Bishop 
Willow, Alaska
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