Question

I have the following script:

#!/bin/bash

STUB=`pwd | awk -F '/' '{print "/" $2 "/" $3 "/"}'`
printf "arguments are $@\n"

if [ $STUB = "/mnt/nas/" ]; then

        /usr/bin/ad ls $@ 1>&1

else

        /bin/ls $@ 1>&1

fi

Somehow, however, whenever I run it the follwing text is automatically added as an argument even though I never typed it:

--color=auto

So I can run the following command:

ls

and it will always print

arguments are --color=auto

Even though I never typed that in.

This extra argument is messing up my script because /usr/bin/ad cannot parse it. Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

Thanks

Answer 1

Let me guess: the script is called ls and you’ve defined ls as an alias for ls --color=auto in ~/.bashrc or elsewhere.