On 3 Oct 2009 at 20:19, Wanna-Be Sys Admin wrote:
> John wrote:
>> If I do "history -w" then it writes the current history to
>> ~/.bash_history as expected.
>>
>> But if I do "history -a" then ~/.bash_history doesn't get changed, and
>> from the modification time it hasn't been touched at all.
>
Yarda wrote:
> With bash-4.0 the mailcheck behaviour is annoying when there is a pseudo
> message in a mailbox, e.g.:
It's unfortunate that the system's implementors chose a metadata format
that is indistinguishable from a valid mail message. Since bash doesn't
read the contents of a mail file at
Martin von Gagern wrote:
>> The reason that [[ conditional commands don't require extglob to be
>> enabled while they're executed (and case commands do) lies in how the
>> commands are defined to behave. case commands are defined by Posix:
>> the pattern is always a Posix shell pattern, and any e
Henning Garus wrote:
> Bash Version: 4.0
> Patch Level: 33
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
> When bash_dequote_filename() is called with text ending with a
> backslash and double quote as quote_char, it writes beyond the memory
> allocated for ret, thus corrupting memory.
Thank
Julien Duval wrote:
> Thanks for the quick reply Chet.
>
> I should have insisted on the fact that I don't want the first TAB to insert
> a full match. The first TAB should only insert the longest common prefix
> between all the possible completions (not a full match). A full match should
> only b
John wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Bash's history command is behaving oddly.
>
> If I do "history -w" then it writes the current history to
> ~/.bash_history as expected.
>
> But if I do "history -a" then ~/.bash_history doesn't get changed, and
> from the modification time it hasn't been touched at all.
Lo
Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
Machine: i686
OS: linux-gnu
Compiler: gcc
Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i686'
-DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i686-pc-linux-gnu'
-DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale' -DPACKAGE='ba
