Hi
In looking at some shell code that counts %’s in strings, I discovered this
small discrepancy in OpenBSD’s shell. I’m not sure if this is a bug or expected
behaviour so thought I would ask here. It seems to be the way set is used.
This shell script tickles the issue. The difference being the x is prefixed in
the set command in the second case:
msg="x%s konnte nicht genet werden, die Fehlermeldung lautet: %s."
msg1="%s konnte nicht genet werden, die Fehlermeldung lautet: %s."
IFS="%"
set -- $msg
echo "Message: $msg" >&2
echo "$#" >&2
set -- x$msg1
echo "Message: $msg1"
echo " with x before" >&2
echo "$#" >&2
echo "--------" >&2
On OpenBSD, this is the output:
Message: x%s konnte nicht genet werden, die Fehlermeldung lautet: %s.
3
Message: %s konnte nicht genet werden, die Fehlermeldung lautet: %s.
with x before
4
————
On bash, NetBSD /bin/sh, MacOS /bin/sh and FreeBSD both values are 3.
Any ideas? I can file a bug if necessary.
Kind regards
Chris
