Re: Feature request for Bash

2013-11-24 Thread Pierre Gaston
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Pierre Gaston wrote: > > > > On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 6:04 AM, Ryan Campbell Cunningham < > rvskmbr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Configuration Information [Automatically generated]: >> Machine: x86_64 >> OS: linux-gnu >> Compiler: gcc >> Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM=

Re: Feature request for Bash

2013-11-24 Thread Pierre Gaston
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 6:04 AM, Ryan Campbell Cunningham < rvskmbr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Configuration Information [Automatically generated]: > Machine: x86_64 > OS: linux-gnu > Compiler: gcc > Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='x86_64' > -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACH

Feature request for Bash

2013-11-24 Thread Ryan Campbell Cunningham
Configuration Information [Automatically generated]: Machine: x86_64 OS: linux-gnu Compiler: gcc Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='x86_64' -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' -DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale' -DPACKAGE='bash' -DS

Re: RFC: turn off word splitting for vars but keep for read

2013-11-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Aleksey Midenkov wrote: > I would say, that this style generally is wrong: > > rmprog=${RMPROG-rm} > rmcmd="$rmprog -f" > > Because it will fail for files with spaces. I am sure we disagree but I don't consider making rm program names have spaces to be reasonable. :-/ What would it be? "remov

Re: bash 4.3 and 4.2 trouble with associative arrays assigned by ``printf -v''

2013-11-24 Thread Chet Ramey
On 11/21/13, 1:03 PM, NBaH wrote: > Bash Version: 4.3 > Patch Level: 0 > Release Status: beta2 > > Description: > associative indexes don't appear when assigned by ``printf -v'' Thanks for the report. This will be fixed in bash-4.3. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' -