Re: Some proposals concerning bash manual

2021-05-18 Thread Chet Ramey
On 5/18/21 2:44 PM, Ingo wrote: Hello, during my job related reentry into bash scripting after 23 years of work with other platforms (e.g. mainframes) I made some extensions/changes to a printed version of bash manual edition 4.4 of 2016 which might be useful also for others. Thanks for you

Some proposals concerning bash manual

2021-05-18 Thread Ingo
Hello, during my job related reentry into bash scripting after 23 years of work with other platforms (e.g. mainframes) I made some extensions/changes to a printed version of bash manual edition 4.4 of 2016 which might be useful also for others. Here are they: Page 18, section 3.4 Shell Parame

Re: 'command' builtin doesn't seem to work for external 'printf'

2021-05-18 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 04:00:10PM -0700, Carl Thompson wrote: > Nevermind! I was misunderstanding what the 'command' builtin does! For the archives: 'command' only suppresses functions. It doesn't suppress shell builtins. The typical use is when writing a wrapper function with the same name as