feature request: "wait --free-slot" for poor man's parallelization

2008-10-02 Thread Mike Coleman
Here's a bash feature I'd love to see, but don't have time to implement myself: a "--free-slot" flag to 'wait' that will wait until there is at least one free "slot" available, where a slot is basically a CPU core. Example usage: $ for ((n=0; n<100; n++)); do my_experiment $n > $n.out &

bash cores if nscd disabled on Solaris LDAP sasl/gssapi client

2008-10-02 Thread Serge Dussud - Sun Microsystems
Hello bug-bash, please find attached a bashbug report. I am not sure how to follow-up then, could you advise ? Thanks, Serge From: root To: bug-bash@gnu.org Subject: bash cores if nscd disabled on Solaris LDAP sasl/gssapi client Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not cha

Re: Multiple Words on Bash Programmable Auto Completion

2008-10-02 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Chet Ramey wrote: Chet Ramey wrote: How come you didn't mention '-o nospace' when I was trying to write a completion for directory names from a non-PWD reference point? ;-) Did it exist then? :-) Did it not? I'm running 3.2-22.fc9 (3.2.33(1)-release). I'm referring to the thread http://pe

Re: Multiple Words on Bash Programmable Auto Completion

2008-10-02 Thread Chet Ramey
> Chet Ramey wrote: > How come you didn't mention '-o nospace' when I was trying to write a > completion for directory names from a non-PWD reference point? ;-) Did it exist then? :-) Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Multiple Words on Bash Programmable Auto Completion

2008-10-02 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Chet Ramey wrote: Description: I don't know if this is a bug or not, but it has to do with programmable auto completion. Whenever the options have multiple words I don't get what I want. You can get filename-like quoting by specifying that readline should treat the matches returned by the c

Re: Multiple Words on Bash Programmable Auto Completion

2008-10-02 Thread Daniel Fleischman
Thank you, that's exactly what I wanted. On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 09:16, Chet Ramey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Description: > > I don't know if this is a bug or not, but it has to do with > programmable > > auto completion. Whenever the options have multiple words I don't get > what I > > w

Re: Multiple Words on Bash Programmable Auto Completion

2008-10-02 Thread Chet Ramey
> Description: > I don't know if this is a bug or not, but it has to do with programmable > auto completion. Whenever the options have multiple words I don't get what I > want. You can get filename-like quoting by specifying that readline should treat the matches returned by the completion fun