Would bash ever use xterm color support as default?

2007-04-20 Thread shirish agarwal
Hi all, Most of us use bash by default. And bash is not intuitive atleast for people who are new to the system. I'm sure there have been suggestions made for this before & would be made after me and I guess the people maintaining bash would have some valid points why things like intelligent

Re: how does bash parse back-ticks, anyway?

2007-04-20 Thread Chet Ramey
Sven Mascheck wrote: >> | echo ` echo $( >> | cat <<\eof cat <<\eof >> | a here-doc with ` a here-doc with ) >> | eofeof >> | ` ) >> | >> | echo `

Re: how does bash parse back-ticks, anyway?

2007-04-20 Thread Sven Mascheck
Eric Blake wrote: > Read the POSIX rationale: > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/xrat/xcu_chap02.html > | [...] While the newer "$()" form can process > | any kind of valid embedded script, the backquoted form cannot handle > | some valid scripts that include backquotes. For example,