On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 03:58:24PM +0000, Olivier Duclos wrote: > Hi, > > This is a small cosmetic patch which fixes something that annoyed me for a long time: the repetition of the script name in error messages. > > Example: > > $ cat test.sh > #!/bin/sh > echo ${x:?} > > $ dash test.sh > /home/odc/test.sh: 2: /home/odc/test.sh: x: parameter not set or null > > With the patch: > > $ dash test.sh > /home/odc/test.sh: 2: x: parameter not set or null > > This is the same behavior as bash. Thanks for the report! How about this patch? ---8<--- We set commandname in procargs when we don't have to. This results in a duplicated output of arg0 when an error occurs. Reported-by: Olivier Duclos <odc@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/src/options.c b/src/options.c index 6f381e6..a46c23b 100644 --- a/src/options.c +++ b/src/options.c @@ -159,7 +159,6 @@ procargs(int argc, char **argv) setinputfile(*xargv, 0); setarg0: arg0 = *xargv++; - commandname = arg0; } shellparam.p = xargv; -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt