On 8/15/18 3:36 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: > It does look like bash can be more efficient with argument handling. > Since, for example, dash does it.
Yes, it just needs new primitives to do it. The existing code for managing the saved positional parameters has been in bash since the pre-1.0 days and is pretty much unchanged since then. I'll take a look. 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://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/