-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Michael Williams on 9/12/2007 4:06 AM: > Being that I'm not a bash (or any other shell for that matter) guru, is > there any reason that parsing occurs this way? Why is it not more like > other programming languages?
Two words: history and POSIX. It's been done that way for more than 20 years, so it was standardized that way. Changing it would break too many existing scripts. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG5+Oe84KuGfSFAYARAuWbAJ0ehVQ8EFpTfacsl+W8CadNBeOWnQCfTW8X dx+j+nXGWS+yQh4hPRiSpO0= =AnCD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
