On 7/2/22 6:09 AM, Ernest Adrogué wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The documentation string for the 'caller' builtin command in bash.pot
> appears to be incomplete, in particular the last 4 lines from the
> snippet below which were present in previous versions are now missing:
Not so.
#: builtins.c:369
msgid ""
"Return the context of the current subroutine call.\n"
" \n"
" Without EXPR, returns \"$line $filename\". With EXPR, returns\n"
" \"$line $subroutine $filename\"; this extra information can be used to\n"
" provide a stack trace.\n"
" \n"
" The value of EXPR indicates how many call frames to go back before the\n"
" current one; the top frame is frame 0.\n"
" \n"
" Exit Status:\n"
" Returns 0 unless the shell is not executing a shell function or EXPR\n"
" is invalid."
msgstr ""
The other one is present if the caller builtin is compiled as a loadable
builtin, which it is not in the distributed version of bash. I suppose I
could make the two identical, but the loadable builtin version is never
used, so it doesn't seem like a priority.
--
``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/
