On 7/20/10 3:14 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> I'm trying to learn how bash completion works, so that I can
> write completion functions for some utilities.
>
> As an experiment, I wrote the following trivial completion. It
> is intended to report that the completions for the current word
> are exactly t
On 7/24/10 3:23 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> koe...@science-computing.de writes:
>
>> empty line(s) at the end of quoted command subsitutions are missing:
>
> That is not a bug, but a feature. Command subsitution generally strips
> trailing newlines from the output of the command. If you want th
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> koe...@science-computing.de writes:
>
>> empty line(s) at the end of quoted command subsitutions are missing:
>
> That is not a bug, but a feature. Command subsitution generally strips
> trailing newlines from the output of the command. I
koe...@science-computing.de writes:
> empty line(s) at the end of quoted command subsitutions are missing:
That is not a bug, but a feature. Command subsitution generally strips
trailing newlines from the output of the command. If you want the
complete output use a pipe.
Andreas.
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