On Wed, Nov 01, 2017 at 01:19:08PM -0700, Alan Dipert wrote:
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> I can imagine many reasons not to add a new variable, including the fact
> that it could change the behavior of existing scripts. It may also be the
> case that there’s already a method to get sub-second times without shelling
> o
Hello all,
I understand there is a “special” variable, SECONDS, which returns the
number of seconds since bash invocation when referenced.
Unfortunately for tasks like profiling one’s .profile, SECONDS is too
coarse a unit. Milliseconds are more useful, but getting the time in
milliseconds is onl
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On 11/1/17 7:04 AM, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote:
> Bash Version: 4.4
> Patch Level: 12
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
> I was bitten by earlier iterations of case selectors prematurely ending
> an $()
> and my actual problem has been patched in the newest release (thanks!). I
Hi,
How is the parser supposed to know that the closing parenthesis in */)
is supposed to match the opening $( or not?
This should work, though:
foo=$(while true; do case $HOME in (/*) echo abs ;; esac; done)
Best,
- GG.
On 11/01/2017 12:04 PM, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote:
Configuration I
Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
Machine: x86_64
OS: linux-gnu
Compiler: gcc
Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='x86_64'
-DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu'
-DCONF_VENDOR='unknown' -DLOCALEDIR='/opt/bash/share/
