> Eric> $ k=$(case x in (x) :; esac)
> Huh, they only taught us ) in school.
> Is () since Bell Labs days too?
POSIX requires shells to support case x in (x), but older
bourne shells do not support this newer syntax. That is
probably why you were not taught it; if I understand
correctly, it was i
Prompt miscalculations seems to happen slightly more in 3.1.0? Live
with this below script for a few days and often using ^R, ^A, combined
with inserting characters etc. and you too should see how often bash
miscalculates where things are on the screen. It's hard to describe,
so no precise examples
