Re: Bash 2.05a isn't calling gawk as expected

[Chet Ramey]

nparks@torah.org wrote:
> Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
> Machine: i686
> OS: linux-gnu
> Compiler: gcc
> Compilation CFLAGS:  -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i686' 
> -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i686-pc-linux-gnu' 
> -DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -D_GNU_SOURCE  -I.  -I. 
> -I./include -I./lib -O2 -march=i386 -mcpu=i686
> uname output: Linux acsvan0 2.4.18-4custom #3 Fri May 31 14:54:10 EDT 2002 
> i686 unknown
> Machine Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu
> 
> Bash Version: 2.05a
> Patch Level: 0
> Release Status: release
> 
> Description:
>   A shell script which worked perfectly using "1.14.7(1)" fails to execute
> properly using "2.05a.0(1)-release".  The purpose of the script is to parse
> a session log file found in each user's home directory, and determine
> whether a record belonging to some other user appears with today's date in
> the file.

Why not run bash with the -x option to get an execution trace?

Chet

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