'set' command gives garbage

[mac11]

I'm having an issue where the output of the 'set' command gives me extra garbage and I'm wondering if anybody can help point me toward a solution. Actually, it looks like part of a script, not random garbage. Anyway, when I type set I get this output (shortened for brevity):

BASH=/bin/bash
BASH_ARGC=()
BASH_ARGV=()
BASH_COMPLETION=/etc/bash_completion
BASH_COMPLETION_DIR=/etc/bash_completion.d
BASH_LINENO=()
BASH_SOURCE=()
..... snip (it continues like normal for a while) ....
.............
.............
WINDOWID=46137436
WINDOWPATH=7:7:7:7
XAUTHORITY=/home/user/.Xauthority
XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/:/usr/share/gdm/
XDG_SESSION_COOKIE=3a7c2617118a89c0941a89564810cba3-1215613306.783332-151702627
_=set
bash205='3.2.33(1)-release'
bash205b='3.2.33(1)-release'
bash3='3.2.33(1)-release'
_alias () 
{ 
    local cur;
    COMPREPLY=();
    cur=${COMP_WORDS[$COMP_CWORD]};
    case "$COMP_LINE" in 
        *[^=])
            COMPREPLY=($( compgen -A alias -S '=' -- $cur ))
        ;;
        *=)
            COMPREPLY=("$( alias ${cur%=} 2>/dev/null |                              sed -e 's|^alias '$cur'\(.*\)$|\1|' )")
        ;;
    esac
}
_apt_cache () 
{ 
    local cur prev special i;
    COMPREPLY=();
    cur=`_get_cword`;
    prev=${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD-1]};
    if [ "$cur" != show ]; then
        for ((i=0; i < ${#COMP_WORDS[@]}-1; i++ ))
        do
            if [[ ${COMP_WORDS[i]} == @(add|depends|dotty|policy|rdepends|madison|show?(pkg|src|)) ]]; then
                special=${COMP_WORDS[i]};
            fi;
        done;
    fi;
    if [ -n "$special" ]; then
..... snip (you get the point, it goes on and on with other stuff) .....
.............
.............

So, any idea why I'm getting the script stuff as output from 'set'?

If it helps, my linux at the moment is a vmware image of ubuntu 8.04 (using vmware player, not workstation or server).If you're interested, the image I'm using can be found at http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1224

[Nepomuk]

I don't know if this is still an issue, but if so, what is the exact command you're using, that gives you this output? I'm guessing it's not processing some file but printing it instead...

Greetings,
Nepomuk

[mac11]

I don't know if this is still an issue, but if so, what is the exact command you're using, that gives you this output? I'm guessing it's not processing some file but printing it instead...

Greetings,
Nepomuk

Thanks Nepomuk, I forgot to check this thread for a long time, but it's still an annoyance.

The command I run is just 'set' (hoping to just see a list of environment variables). I'm thinking maybe there is an error in some config file somewhere but I dont know enough about bash to know what's going on.

any help is appreciated but it's not like I need to run 'set' very often so I can live with the strangeness.

[Nepomuk]

Thanks Nepomuk, I forgot to check this thread for a long time, but it's still an annoyance.

The command I run is just 'set' (hoping to just see a list of environment variables). I'm thinking maybe there is an error in some config file somewhere but I dont know enough about bash to know what's going on.

any help is appreciated but it's not like I need to run 'set' very often so I can live with the strangeness.

Hm, well I just checked and in my Ubuntu VM it's at least similar, if not the same. (Couldn't bother to check if all of the code was the same as yours.)

Having a look at the output, the first (in my case 71) lines DO seem to be the environment variables, so in my case

set | head -n 71

helps. Not ideal, I'll admit, but at least a solution.

Greetings,
Nepomuk

[mac11]

Thanks again, at least you've helped me confirm that it's not just some idiot thing I've done to cause this :)