Chet:
Thank you for the pointers. I tried to read through the "repo" code all
morning. I don't really know Python, but what I can see is that:
1) It appears to not invoke any specific shell. It seems to fork a new
process, which would duplicate whatever shell it started with.
2) It has a "D
On 7/3/18 10:34 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 7/2/18 5:58 PM, toww wrote:
>
>> Bash Version: 4.3
>> Patch Level: 48
>> Release Status: release
>>
>> Description:
>> There seems to be a new incompatibility or incorrect string parsing in how
>> the Google "repo" utility interacts with the bash shell. P
On 7/2/18 5:58 PM, toww wrote:
> Bash Version: 4.3
> Patch Level: 48
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
> There seems to be a new incompatibility or incorrect string parsing in how
> the Google "repo" utility interacts with the bash shell. Previously I could
> invoke the "repo" command, p
On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 10:43:31PM +1000, Robert Durkacz wrote:
> On 5/21/18 Chet Ramey wrote:
>
>
> > What you're asking for is syntactic sugar for:
>
> > some-command > temp-file
> > echo '#' >> temp-file
> > variablename=$(< temp-file)
> > rm -f temp-file
> > variablename=${variablename%?}
>
On 3.7. 15:43, Robert Durkacz wrote:
On 5/21/18 Chet Ramey wrote:
What you're asking for is syntactic sugar for:
some-command > temp-file
echo '#' >> temp-file
variablename=$(< temp-file)
rm -f temp-file
variablename=${variablename%?}
I would look at a sample implementation, possibly using
On 5/21/18 Chet Ramey wrote:
> What you're asking for is syntactic sugar for:
> some-command > temp-file
> echo '#' >> temp-file
> variablename=$(< temp-file)
> rm -f temp-file
> variablename=${variablename%?}
> I would look at a sample implementation, possibly using mmap, if someone
did one.
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