peter360 wrote: > I wrote a test program test.sh: > ---------------------------------------------------- > trap ' > > echo this is line 3, but LINENO=$LINENO > > ' 0 > > echo this is line 7, and LINENO=$LINENO > --------------------------- > when I ran it I got > $ sh /tmp/test.sh > this is line 7, and LINENO=7 > this is line 3, but LINENO=11 > > My bash version is > $ sh --version > GNU bash, version 3.2.25(1)-release (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) > Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > > Is this a known problem? Thanks.
Bash-4.0 should behave better in this area, but quoted strings will always cause unpredictable values for $LINENO. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
