Bashdb skip help is now https://sourceforge.net/p/bashdb/code/ci/master/tree/command/skip.sh#l30
If this is incorrect, deficient, or you have improvements, let me know. Thanks. On Sat, Apr 8, 2017 at 7:52 PM, Rocky Bernstein <ro...@gnu.org> wrote: > Good point! Will make note of that too. > > On Sat, Apr 8, 2017 at 7:15 PM, Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote: > >> On 4/8/17 6:48 PM, Rocky Bernstein wrote: >> > Thanks for giving me a heads up here. I have updated the bashdb >> > documentation for the skip command make clear that $? is no changed in >> > skipping an instruction. >> >> OK. I was more concerned with documenting that using "skip" on the while >> command test will result in it succeeding and the while command body >> executing. >> >> (And the state that the DEBUG trap saves is the same as any other trap >> command: the only thing Posix says that gets saved and restored is $?.) >> >> Chet >> >> -- >> ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer >> ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates >> Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu >> http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ >> > >
