Re: possible bug with $@ and and non-standard IFS

> If you use nd="${dh}$*" before resetting IFS, you'll get the output you > in bash-3.0 through bash-4.0. But I don't in Bourne shell, I get smith0.0. So neither construct works in a portable manner. :( JR

On the fly COLORING and UNDERLINING (a la FISH)

Dear Bash developers, We are long-time users of Bash. A few years ago we encountered an alternative Linux shell called Fish (www.fisshell.org). For us this shell has some compelling features that we would love to avail of in Bash: 1."On the fly COLORING": If you type the name of a binary - o

Re: Why are curly braces different than parens for cmd grouping?

Chet Ramey wrote: > Linda Walsh wrote: > > A previous note had me wondering why the syntax for using > > curly braces to group expressions wasn't able to be the same as > > using 'paren's. > > Braces are reserved words. Parentheses are operators. Blame > Steve Bourne. I wonder about the motiva

Re: Bash does not read up the whole script which it is currently executing

John Reiser a écrit : > On 08/04/2009 12:48 AM, fam...@icdsoft.com wrote: >> First I would like to say that I'm not sure if this is a bug or a >> feature of Bash. >> If it is a feature, please let me know how to turn it off; or better >> make it disabled by default... >> >> T