Re: GLOBIGNORE documentation

2016-03-06 Thread Isabella Parakiss
On Sun, Mar 06, 2016 at 10:16:58PM +, Stephane Chazelas wrote: > Today, I realised that GLOBIGNORE doesn't work at all like ksh's > FIGNORE. > > With > > GLOBIGNORE=x* > > we're not filtering out files whose *name* starts with "x" from > globs but those whose *path* starts with "x". > > In

GLOBIGNORE documentation

2016-03-06 Thread Stephane Chazelas
Today, I realised that GLOBIGNORE doesn't work at all like ksh's FIGNORE. With GLOBIGNORE=x* we're not filtering out files whose *name* starts with "x" from globs but those whose *path* starts with "x". In echo * files whose name starts with "x" will be excluded, but not in echo ./* I think

Re: [Help-bash] help

2016-03-06 Thread John McKown
Please reply to the list and not just me. There are a lot of helpful people out there. Perhaps a "reply all"? On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 5:26 PM, Val Krem wrote: > Hi John, > Thank you very much! > I chose to put it as a function in my .bashrc. > what happened is that > if I dot give the the two ar

Re: GLOBIGNORE documentation

2016-03-06 Thread Stephane Chazelas
2016-03-06 22:16:58 +, Stephane Chazelas: [...] > $ bash -c 'GLOBIGNORE=x*; echo .*' > .* > $ bash -c 'GLOBIGNORE=x*; echo ./.*' > ./. ./.. > $ bash -c 'GLOBIGNORE=x*; echo .*/a' > ./a ../a > > To truely exclude . and .., one needs: > > shopt -s extglob > GLOBIGNORE='?(*/)@(.|..)' [...] That

Re: Parallel build error with 4.4-rc1

2016-03-06 Thread Chet Ramey
On 3/5/16 5:05 AM, Chris Staub wrote: > When building Bash 4.4-rc1 with "make -j4", it is possible to get a make > error due to the build system attempting to copy a file to a directory > before that directory has been created. It will try to copy "Makefile.inc" > to $(loadablesdir), but the comman