Corrupted syntax error messages for null substring expansion in arithmetic expression

Hm, that's a mouthful. Running bash 3.1.17. $ bash -c 'foo=""; (( ${foo:1} < 10 ))' bash: Xl: < 10 : syntax error: operand expected (error token is "< 10 ") ^^^ The characters indicated by carets above differ from run to run depending on memory usage. Obviously, this indicates that bash is

Re: here document and STDIN

"Cai Qian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The information is helpful. The problem by using > > perl -e ' >X > ' > > is that there seems no way to using single quota in Perl code any more. It's not very concise, but you can do this: perl -e ' ... '\'' ... ' >From the shell's point of vi

Re: here document and STDIN

The information is helpful. The problem by using perl -e ' X ' is that there seems no way to using single quota in Perl code any more. On 5/23/06, Paul Jarc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Cai Qian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For following code, > > sh < read > EOF > > I have no ide

Re: export does not work on array

Byron Clark wrote: > Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: > Machine: i486 > OS: linux-gnu > Compiler: gcc > Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i486' > -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' - \DCONF_MACHTYPE='i486-pc-linux-gnu' > -DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DLOCALEDI

Re: here document and STDIN

I wrote: > sh < read <&3 > EOF Sorry, that first line should be: sh 3<&0

Re: here document and STDIN

"Cai Qian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For following code, > > sh < read > EOF > > I have no idea why will not block. The "read" command reads from the shell's stdin, which is the here document. At the point where the "read" command is executed, the shell has already read the "read" comman

here document and STDIN

Hi, For following code, sh

Re: file test bug in bash 3.1

Zackary Deems wrote: > echo "blah" >/tmp/blah > ln -s /tmp/blah /tmp/blah.link > if [[ -f "/tmp/blah.link" ]] > then >echo "/tmp/blah.link is a regular file" > else >echo "/tmp/blah.link is NOT a regular file" > fi > > links now match for both links and regular files. This plays hell with