I think most of what needs to be said about the technical aspects of this user's
question has been said. But I want to make a few suggestions for future
practice,
both for this mailing list and for the OP.
In the gawk-bug list (which is structured very much like this list), they have
a setup
where when you post, you're supposed to affirm two things:
1) That you have read their little document (web address given) about what
sorts
of things should be posted to help-gawk and what things are OK for bug-gawk.
2) That you have not modified the source code before compiling it (and/or
that if
you did modify it, what you did and why).
It seems to me that we should have a similar requirement here that you've run
your
code through "shellcheck" (www.shellcheck.net) first before posting. As it
turns out,
shellcheck would have caught the issue raised by OP, and I can remember at
least one
previous thread here where this was also the case.
To the OP: This is not intended as a criticism. I really like shellcheck, and
I hope
you do, too - even though a lot of what it complains about can/should be
ignored (*).
(*) Example: I frequently do: set -- $foo
specifically to split foo up into $1, $2, etc. But shellcheck flags this as:
Did you
mean: set -- "$foo"
Yes, I get that you usually do want to double-quote your variables, but there
are
exceptions (and when I leave a variable unquoted, it is for a reason).
I have a pretty long list of "things to ignore" (using the "-e" command line
switch on
shellcheck) that tells it which things to not report on.
Final note: I have only used the command line version of shellcheck. I
understand
that there is also a "paste your code to the web page and click OK" version as
well.
I've never used that.
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