Bug 437653

Summary:	/bin/echo --foo --bar drops first argument/parameter?!
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Robert Scheck <redhat-bugzilla>
Component:	coreutils	Assignee:	Ondrej Vasik <ovasik>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Robert Scheck 2008-03-15 20:05:43 UTC

Description of problem:
# echo --foo --bar
--foo --bar
#

But:

# /bin/echo --foo --bar
--bar
# 

Ouch. Lost we "--foo" in translation?

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
coreutils-6.10-11

How reproducible:
Strange echo behaviour.

Actual results:
/bin/echo --foo --bar drops first argument/parameter?!

Expected results:
No argument/parameter dropping any longer - and AFAIK as in the past.

Comment 1 Ondrej Vasik 2008-03-17 09:17:37 UTC

Thanks for report, what you see was requested change to have option separator in
echo (see #431005 for details). It seemed reasonable to have that separator at
first sight. I was wrong... Now I'm sure (in fact before your bug report, I had
discussion on upstream mailing list about that misunderstanding) that this is
wrong idea and it will be fixed in next rawhide build. Sorry for that once more
time.

Comment 2 Ondrej Vasik 2008-03-17 12:04:55 UTC

Built as coreutils-6.10-13.fc9 , closing RAWHIDE