UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

I tested the problem originator's code on Solaris 10 and got the same results as the originator using both /usr/bin/ksh and /xpg4/usr/bin/ksh

Next I tested your code on ksh93 (version t- 6/14/2008 on Interix.i386 V6) and noticed the following:

- Your sample code uses $? to "print the number of parameters passed" . My understanding of the ksh programming language and shell is that $? returns the decimal value returned by the last executed command. and $# returns the number of positional parameters.
- Your sample code (x.ksh) contains an "exit 0". When executed within the current shell context this will close the shell i.e. exit the shell.

Here are my results for ksh93:

Code:

$ cat x.ksh
#!/usr/bin/ksh93
print - "$# parameters have been passed"
$ . ./x.ksh 1 2
2 parameters have been passed
$ . ./x.ksh
0 parameters have been passed
$

The problem appears to be specific to Solaris.