On 6/16/20 9:30 AM, Chet Ramey wrote: > On 6/15/20 4:47 PM, bel...@web.de wrote: > >> Bash Version: 5.0 >> Patch Level: 3 >> Release Status: release >> >> Description: > >> `hash -l' is supposed to generate output that is reusable as input >> (`help hash' says so, at least). In case the hash table is empty, a >> string not re-usable as input is output to stdout. The exit code >> indicates success in this case. The string being output is locale- >> dependant (and therefore is hard to filter out in a work-around). > > It's an interesting question. An empty hash table is not an error > condition, and doesn't result in a non-zero exit status, so output to > stderr is not appropriate. You might want to temporarily enable posix mode, > which suppresses the message.
stderr is also a reasonably appropriate place to emit debug info or warnings. I would consider this a warning condition... -- Eli Schwartz Arch Linux Bug Wrangler and Trusted User
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