On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 11:57 AM, xaviermasr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm starting to use bash programming and I'd like to know if it can use
> minimal expressions (.*?) as in Perl. 'sed' command can use them, but I
> think isn't possible within bash commands (as ingrep manipulati
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to comp.unix.shell as well.
Regarding how to defuse
$ sleep 666; echo BOOM
given only one terminal,
m> Here, running bash in a xterm, this works for me:
m> ^S ^C ^C ^Q
For me in xterm, or even on the Debian sid tty1 conso
Hi all,
I'm starting to use bash programming and I'd like to know if it can use
minimal expressions (.*?) as in Perl. 'sed' command can use them, but I
think isn't possible within bash commands (as ingrep manipulating string
commands). My main concern is to use bash for file processing.
Cheers.
Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
Machine: i586
OS: linux-gnu
Compiler: gcc -I/usr/src/packages/BUILD/bash-3.2
-L/usr/src/packages/BUILD/bash-3.2/../readline-5.2
Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i586'
-DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHT
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 10:15:06PM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
> Stephane Chazelas wrote:
>
>> What about a different $? (like 2 for timeout)?
>
> That's reasonable. I'm thinking 128+SIGALRM.
[...]
That makes sense, but it's a bit of a pain to handle.
read -t 10 var; ret=$?
case $ret in
(0) OK;;
