Package: bash Version: 4.1-3 Severity: normal The $COLUMNS variable seems to work properly in a terminal window (with shopt -s checkwinsize), but in a child script, the $COLUMNS variable is null no matter what I try, even if the windows is resized while running the script.
-- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages bash depends on: ii base-files 6.0 Debian base system miscellaneous f ii dash 0.5.5.1-7.4 POSIX-compliant shell ii debianutils 3.4 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libncurses5 5.7+20100313-5 shared libraries for terminal hand Versions of packages bash recommends: ii bash-completion 1:1.2-3 programmable completion for the ba Versions of packages bash suggests: pn bash-doc <none> (no description available) -- Configuration Files: /etc/bash.bashrc changed: alias ll="ls -la" [ -z "$PS1" ] && return shopt -s checkwinsize if [ -z "$debian_chroot" ] && [ -r /etc/debian_chroot ]; then debian_chroot=$(cat /etc/debian_chroot) fi PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w\$ ' if [ -x /usr/lib/command-not-found ]; then function command_not_found_handle { # check because c-n-f could've been removed in the meantime if [ -x /usr/lib/command-not-found ]; then /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/command-not-found -- $1 return $? else return 127 fi } fi -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org