Bash is behaving correctly; this is not a bug in Bash. And this list is for
reporting bugs, not fixing user scripts, so rather than spoon-feed you an
explanation, I'm going to give you enough pointers to enable you to
discover it for yourself.
Start by reading what the manual says about reading commands from the named
file, and what it says about '-c'.
Note that it says:
- commands are read from the first non-option argument *command_string*
.
Note that it does *NOT* say
- commands are read from the file named by the first non-option argument
*file_name*.
This difference is critically important.
Try exploring some simpler cases, such as:
bash -c 'echo abc def'
> bash -c echo abc def
> bash -c 'echo "arg0={$0} args={$*}"' abc def xyz
> bash echo abc def
If the explanation still isn't self-evident, try this: type
> chmod a-x test.sh
and re-do your tests. Explain why one test does not change while the other
fails in a different way.
-Martin
