On 02/09/2025 at 16:40, Martin D Kealey wrote:
On Tue, 2 Sep 2025, 03:55 Chet Ramey, <[email protected]> wrote:
On 9/1/25 2:54 AM, Martin D Kealey wrote:
- Brackets always ensure a subshell.
Parentheses. Brackets are [ and ] in bash and POSIX nomenclature.
Sorry, dialectic slip of the tongue.
I did indeed mean parentheses.
Being told for 12 years of childhood that () are "brackets" sometimes
inadvertently surfaces even decades later.
-Martin
Perhaps there should be some sort of definition at the top of the manual.
Something like: In this manual [ ] are brackets, ( ) are parentheses, {
} are curly braces ... etc.
Perhaps also: shopt options compiled in raw bash are: extglob off ... etc.
--
Chris Elvidge
England
