Re: select syntax violates the POLA

2021-04-04 Thread Oğuz
5 Nisan 2021 Pazartesi tarihinde konsolebox yazdı: > > The manual itself may be lacking in some places but the syntax here is > explicit. There's no reason to follow otherwise. These "other methods" > can only be an implementation mistake or a compromise that's not > exactly a supported functional

Re: select syntax violates the POLA

2021-04-04 Thread konsolebox
On Sat, Apr 3, 2021 at 1:09 AM Robert Elz wrote: > | [[ ]] and (( )) are a form of reserved words themselves > > Those are bash specials, and I am fairly sure that (( and )) will be > operators, not reserved words (they cannot really be the latter, as ( and > ) are operators) and I suspect that

Re: select syntax violates the POLA

2021-04-04 Thread konsolebox
On Mon, Apr 5, 2021 at 12:46 PM Robert Elz wrote: > > Date:Sun, 04 Apr 2021 20:27:15 -0400 > From:wor...@alum.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley) > Message-ID: <87wntha84c@hobgoblin.ariadne.com> > > > | The manual page says > | > |if list; then list; [ elif list

Re: select syntax violates the POLA

2021-04-04 Thread Robert Elz
Date:Sun, 04 Apr 2021 20:27:15 -0400 From:wor...@alum.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley) Message-ID: <87wntha84c@hobgoblin.ariadne.com> | The manual page says | |if list; then list; [ elif list; then list; ] ... [ else list; ] fi | | so clearly there shoul

Re: select syntax violates the POLA

2021-04-04 Thread Dale R. Worley
Robert Elz writes: > From:wor...@alum.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley) > > | I was going to ask why "else {" works, > > The right question would be why '} else' works. Yeah, typo on my part. The manual page says if list; then list; [ elif list; then list; ] ... [ else list; ] fi s