On 26/05/12 04:34, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Philip Ashmore <cont...@philipashmore.com> writes:
>
>> Here's where I wish I was a shell script guru:
>> for var in `cat set.txt`; do
>> { if in env discard }
>> done
>> { sort offenders by decending size }
>> Here's a summary of the ones that caught my eye. Sorry if I missed
>> anyone out!
> Oh. This is smelling like artifacts of bash-completion; perhaps set is
> dumping your completion settings. I'm pretty sure those are not copied
> into subshells and are only loaded in interactive shells.
>
In my original email I ran "set > set.txt && ls -lsa set.txt".
Putting the same into a script:
#!/bin/sh
set > set.txt && ls -lsa set.txt
...got me 2353 bytes - I'll be a donkeys ass!
It looks like the fact that I typed it made it interactive, even though it
didn't require/allow any interaction.
Thanks,
Philip
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