On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 6:03 PM Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Just to be clear, if you run:
>
> foo() {
> for i in "$@"; do
> echo "arg:$i"
> done
> sed s/^/stdin:/
> }
> set -- outer
> foo inner <<EOF
> $1
> EOF
>
> do you get:
>
> arg:inner
> stdin:inner
That is indeed the result with the FreeBSD 9.3 shell. Seems buggy.
Assigning $1, $2, ... to variables (local or not) as Carlo's patch
does seems to work around the buggy behavior.
