> In Bash, it doesn't do anything useful. In sh and derived shells, it sets the arguments ($1, $2, and so on). In this case you end up with $1 being ‘HOME’, $2

> In Bash, it doesn't do anything useful. In sh and derived shells, it sets the arguments ($1, $2, and so on). In this case you end up with $1 being ‘HOME’, $2 being ‘=’, and $3 being ‘/some/location’.