Bug 19262

Summary: Built-in command "typeset" gives erroneous error messages
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Ray Stann <raymond.j.stann>
Component: bashAssignee: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Ray Stann 2000-10-17 15:34:29 UTC 
In converting shell scripts from ksh to bash, I discovered that "typeset", a built-in command, functions well but issues invalid error messages.  
For example:

typeset -L9 zzzz

is suppose to left justify data placed into "zzzz", and will truncate the data if it's more then 9 characters long.  In fact this works, but the 
following error message is also issued:

typeset: unknown option: '-L'

The work-around is as follows:

typeset -L9 somename 2>/dev/null

Thanks for your help is fixing this bug
Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2000-10-18 17:35:18 UTC 
Typeset doesn't have a -L option according to POSIX; the fact that it worked is
a bug and can't be reproduced in 7.0. ;)