Bug 1576050

Summary: $_ corrupted in Fedora 28 and Rawhide bash
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Till Maas <opensource>
Component: bashAssignee: Siteshwar Vashisht <svashisht>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 30CC: admiller, kasal, kdudka, opensource, svashisht, yann
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Description Till Maas 2018-05-08 16:20:28 UTC
Description of problem:
man bash says at Special Parameters:


       _      At shell startup, set to the absolute pathname used to invoke the shell or shell
              script being executed as passed in the environment  or  argument  list.   Subseā€
              quently,  expands to the last argument to the previous command, after expansion.
              Also set to the full pathname used to invoke each command executed and placed in
              the  environment  exported  to that command.  When checking mail, this parameter
              holds the name of the mail file currently being checked.

but in Fedora 28 and Rawhide, "$_" contains other values.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
bash-4.4.19-2.fc28

How reproducible:
always


Steps to Reproduce:
1.
cat > 'shelltest.sh' <<EOF
#! /bin/bash
echo "$_ $0" 
EOF

2. chmod a+x shelltest.sh
3. ./shelltest.sh

Actual results:
] ./shelltest.sh (on Fedora 28)
VERBOSE_STATE ./shelltest.sh (on Rawhide)


Expected results:
./shelltest.sh ./shelltest.sh (works for example on Fedora 27)                       

Additional info:

Comment 1 Till Maas 2019-04-25 20:18:39 UTC
still broken in bash-5.0.2-1.fc30

Comment 2 Ben Cotton 2020-04-30 22:06:04 UTC
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Comment 3 Ben Cotton 2020-05-26 15:04:16 UTC
Fedora 30 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2020-05-26. Fedora 30 is
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