01-14-2009
Thanks for the reply, but I found the problem.
My environment variable BASH_ENV was set to my bash resource file. This means that non-interactive scripts are going to call my bash resource file when they are executed. It turns out that my bash resource file was calling a common bash resource file that was supplied by someone on our project for everyone to use. It is suppose to provide some basic settings. Unfortunately this common resource file was patterned after a common csh resource file for our csh users. The problem was that some of the set commands in the csh file were not changed appropriately for the bash file. The last of these set commands was the following...
set PHIST=!
This is strictly a csh setting anyway. However, according to the bash man page, any remaining arguments after the options are processed (and you can see there were no options in this command) are treated as values for the positional parameters, and are assigned accordingly. Therefore, $1 was set to PHIST=!.
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NAME
bashbug - report a bug in bash
SYNOPSIS
bashbug [--version] [--help] [email-address]
DESCRIPTION
bashbug is a shell script to help the user compose and mail bug reports concerning bash in a standard format. bashbug invokes the editor
specified by the environment variable EDITOR on a temporary copy of the bug report format outline. The user must fill in the appropriate
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HOME Directory in which the failed bug report is saved if the mail fails.
TMPDIR Directory in which to create temporary files and directories.
SEE ALSO
bash(1)
AUTHORS
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