Chet,
The Open Source on OpenVMS group has been building Bash for OpenVMS
since Bash-4.2.45. Because OpenVMS is not a GNU based operating system,
Bash for OpenVMS has to be initially built using a special script
procedure written in the OpenVMS native Digital Command Language (DCL)
in order t
> But I am wondering if there is a walkaround to deal with errors in
> <(). The ideal behavior should be that if there is a error in <(),
> then we should not consider commandA is executed correctly even if its
> return status is 0.
Again, address your questions to help-bash.
you can use:
Command
On Sat, Mar 07, 2015 at 05:10:51PM -0600, Peng Yu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The following code works in bash.
>
> for x in a b c; { echo $x; }
>
> But I only find the following in bash man page. Does anybody know
> where the above usage is documented? Thanks.
>
> "for name [ [ in [ word ... ] ] ; ] do l
On Sat, Mar 07, 2015 at 04:31:54PM -0600, Peng Yu wrote:
> Hi, I use unset to remove x from the environment once the for loop is
> finished. Is it the best way to do in bash? Thanks.
First, use the help-bash mailing list for this kind of queries.
Second, unless you used 'export x', then the 'x' p
Hi,
http://mywiki.wooledge.org/ProcessSubstitution
The above webpage says the following.
commandA <(commandB; [commandB's exit code is available here from $?])
[commandB's exit code cannot be obtained from here. $? holds
commandA's exit code]
But I am wondering if there is a walkaround to deal
Hi,
The following code works in bash.
for x in a b c; { echo $x; }
But I only find the following in bash man page. Does anybody know
where the above usage is documented? Thanks.
"for name [ [ in [ word ... ] ] ; ] do list ; done"
--
Regards,
Peng
I'm really curious to see if anyone else offers better ideas, but the ways
I've done this are
1) exactly what you propose.
2) use a subshell (parantheses):
$ ( for x in a b c; { echo $x; } )
a
b
c
$ typeset -p x
bash: typeset: x: not found
3) use a function and declare x local to the function
Hi, I use unset to remove x from the environment once the for loop is
finished. Is it the best way to do in bash? Thanks.
for x in a b c
do
echo "$x"
done
unset x
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Regards,
Peng
