Fwd: Question
Dear Maintainer Is there a commercial or free software that can take a Bash script and transparently turn it into a C executable, provided the machines where it runs has any of the external commands like awk, etc? Something like a Java virtual machine, for Shell. I think this language is powerful and I want to distribute some tools that contain critical information. So far I have been googling and there is only obfuscation tools, not compilation tools. Yours ​Philip Orleans
Re: Bash handling of ENOENT on missing files and directories
On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 12:18:40AM +0300, Jonny Grant wrote: > > > $ cd missingdir > > > bash: cd: missingdir: No such file or directory > Yes, it's a known limitation of POSIX that it uses a shared error code for > both files and directors, ENOENT. Which without programmers handling and > checking the stat() flags, means the error isn't completely clear in the > case where a file or dir does exist. I find it completely clear. I *prefer* seeing this error string over some alternative spelling, because when I see this string, I know *exactly* what it means. When I see "No such file" or whatever, then I don't know exactly what it means, other than someone is trying to dumb down the software to "help" newbies in a way that is not actually helpful. Keep following this slippery slope and you get Microsoft Windows error messages that say nothing useful at all. "An error has occurred."
Re: Bash handling of ENOENT on missing files and directories
On 9/5/17 10:57 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Keep following this slippery slope and you get Microsoft Windows error > messages that say nothing useful at all. "An error has occurred." I'd like to think we've evolved from ed's single all-purpose error message: `?'. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRUc...@case.eduhttp://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
