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Description of problem:
Running bash scripts, which invoke commands with arguments passed from variables or from files, yields command usage error.  (It is as if the variables or files are being used as literals.)  The same scripts work flawlessly on ALL Fedora and Redhat releases prior to Fedora Core 4.

Examples:
   mount -t ext2 $1$num ./p$num  :where $1=/dev/hdc and $num=1

   tar -xzpsf /images/2b37c_fc3raw.tar.gz ./diskinfo -T mntlis.out  :where file "mntlis.out" contains additional directories to extract from archive. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
do not know. problem is in FC4 and I have returned to FC3

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run script, which contains commands with arguments passed by variable or file.
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Actual Results:  For the script containing the following command:
   mount -t ext2 $1$num ./p$num  :where $1=/dev/hdc and $num=1
bash returns "device error" or "non-existent device"

(Entering the command explicitly at the bash prompt works.) 

Expected Results:  The variables' values should have been passed as the command arguments


Additional info:

I could not find a similar bugzilla entry against bash for FC4.  I think this is a  serious problem and must affect every user.  I have returned to FC3 due to the severity of this problem.  It has rendered bash USELESS under FC4!