shift function does not work as expected.

[Paul Belanger]

Binary package hint: dash

Currently the 'shift' function in dash does not work as expected.

$ /bin/bash -c 'shift; echo hi'
hi

$ /bin/dash -c 'shift; echo hi'
shift: 1: can't shift that many

[Paul Belanger (pabelanger)]

$ uname -a
Linux pbelanger-desktop 2.6.31-20-generic #58-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 12 04:38:19 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Ubuntu 9.10

[Jilles Tjoelker (jilles)]

I think you should just cope with this (by not shifting more than $#), as there are other shells with the same behaviour.