01-22-2015
Maybe they stored options to stat in a variable which somehow isn't getting set? stat -$VAR and VAR somehow skips being set.
Or maybe sh isn't actually BASH.
Those are wild guesses. It's pretty much impossible to see what's going wrong without seeing the program.
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