On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 2:27 PM, Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> wrote: > > If you are trying to advocate for a new feature in bash, it would behoove > you to use an example that ACTUALLY DEMONSTRATES how it would be useful. > Not a bogus example in which the feature is not only unnecessary, but > harmful as well.
thanks Greg. It was not my intention to harm. The examples were just to give you some idea, and indeed they did. > [..] > In a script, one would store the filename in a variable, every single time. I might add: yes, $^ variable ;-) but I will not. thanks, pg