On 3/13/20 3:32 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> I'm wondering if Chet has an update on the matter (adding bug-bash).
> Repeating some context:
> https://www.mail-archive.com/austin-group-l@opengroup.org/msg04237.html
> was a mail to the POSIX folks last June complaining about how bash 5.0's
> change to al
On 3/13/20 2:22 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 3:13 PM Eric Blake wrote:
Unpatched bash 5.0 has a bug where calling $as_echo that contains \ can
result in unintended globbing, where the behavior of the expansion is
dependent on the contents of the current directory. Nasty!
Date:Fri, 13 Mar 2020 06:59:56 -0500
From:John McKown
Message-ID:
| I do things like:
|
| test && { true_command1;true_command2; : ; } || {
| false_command1; false_command2; false_command3; }
That's OK, and at times I have been tempted that way, but it re
On 3/13/20 9:27 AM, Eli Schwartz wrote:
> (I am still mindblown that "I want a modern syntax for " can
> possibly lead to "imitate C, which is 50 years old and thus astoundingly
> even less modern than the Bourne shell by an entire decade".)
I think the emphasis is on more familiar and more r
On 3/13/20 7:59 AM, John McKown wrote:
> I do things like:
>
> test && { true_command1;true_command2; : ; } || {
> false_command1; false_command2; false_command3; }
>
> Notice the command : (colon) as the last command in the true. The reason
> that I put it there is to guarantee that the $? from
On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 4:01 PM Eli Schwartz
wrote:
> On 3/12/20 3:00 PM, Vaidas BoQsc wrote:
> > Are there any plans to have alternative, a more modern C or D like
> syntaxes
> > for IF statements, While loop and the like in Bash?
> >
> > Would it be better to just make a new shell and command l
