Vladimir Kotal wrote: > UVR wrote: > > Vladimir Kotal wrote on Wed Jul 09 2008 at 13:55:08 GMT-0700 (PDT): [snip] > Everything went fine except wflag test which failed. > > The cosmetic problem was with 'print' function called via tet_infoline() > function. > In src/lib/ksh/common_funcs.ksh:tet_printfile() tet_infoline() is called > like this: > > tet_infoline "---------------------------------------------------" > > This leads to ksh93 print function being called with the above string. > The shell then complains about the usage: > > /opt/SUNWstc-tetlite/contrib/ctitools/bin/report_writer[47]: print: > ---------------------------------------------------: unknown option > > To illustrate the problem: > > jack at opensolaris:/opt/SUNWstc-nc$ echo $SHELL > /usr/bin/ksh93 > jack at opensolaris:/opt/SUNWstc-nc$ print "--" > > jack at opensolaris:/opt/SUNWstc-nc$ print "---" > -ksh93: print: ---: unknown option > Usage: print [ options ] [string ...] > jack at opensolaris:/opt/SUNWstc-nc$ > > I have fixed that by substituting first character of the long string > with '='.
The issue is that "print" (and "printf") are looking for arguments and are confused by an input string which starts with "-". You can avoid this issue by using the POSIX end-of-options marker "--", e.g. $ print -- "------------" # should work for both ksh88 and ksh93. ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL <currently fluctuating> (;O/ \/ \O;)
