Re: Bug Report concerning backslash in bash5

2020-08-05 Thread Dale R. Worley
Robert Elz writes: > Neither I suspect, Dale just didn't notice which backslashes Ralph > meant were the problem - the one in the expansion of $BLA was never > it, it is the others that appeared - which is an obvious bug > (probably something trivial) which I would expect will be quickly fixed. Y

Re: Expand first before asking the question "Display all xxx possibilities?"

2020-08-05 Thread Chris Elvidge
On 05/08/2020 02:55 pm, Chet Ramey wrote: On 8/2/20 6:55 PM, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: Instead of $ zz /jidanni_backups/da Display all 113 possibilities? (y or n) n and then finally showing $ zz /jidanni_backups/dan_home_bkp how about doing the expansion first, so entering $ zz /jidanni_backup

Re: Expand first before asking the question "Display all xxx possibilities?"

2020-08-05 Thread Chet Ramey
On 8/2/20 6:55 PM, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: > Instead of > > $ zz /jidanni_backups/da > Display all 113 possibilities? (y or n) n > > and then finally showing > > $ zz /jidanni_backups/dan_home_bkp > > how about doing the expansion first, so entering > $ zz /jidanni_backups/da would then change

Re: Declaring arrays with empty string in one line is bugged

2020-08-05 Thread Chet Ramey
On 8/4/20 1:31 PM, andy_bash wrote: > Bash Version: 5.1 > Patch Level: 0 > Release Status: alpha > > Description: >         Declaring an array and setting it with empty strings ("") in one > line is bugged in bash 5.1 alpha. This has worked in bash 3.2-5.0 without > issue. Thanks for the report.