Date:Mon, 16 Aug 2021 22:35:12 -0400
From:"Dale R. Worley"
Message-ID: <875yw4yf1b@hobgoblin.ariadne.com>
| Back in the old, old days, there was a program named "glob" that did
| pathname expansions.
That's correct.
But:
| So you wouldn't say
|
|c
On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 08:32:35AM +0200, Kusalananda Kähäri wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 10:28:16AM +0800, Haojun Bao wrote:
> > Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
> > Machine: x86_64
> > OS: linux-gnu
> > Compiler: gcc
> > Compilation CFLAGS: -g -O2
> > -fdebu
Date:Mon, 16 Aug 2021 22:16:29 -0400
From:"Dale R. Worley"
Message-ID: <878s10yfwi@hobgoblin.ariadne.com>
| What seems to be the case with sh-style shells and Posix is that
| all-caps variable names are subject to implementation-specific use, and
| so users
On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 10:28:16AM +0800, Haojun Bao wrote:
> Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
> Machine: x86_64
> OS: linux-gnu
> Compiler: gcc
> Compilation CFLAGS: -g -O2
> -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/bash-2bxm7h/bash-5.0=.
> -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -We
Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
Machine: x86_64
OS: linux-gnu
Compiler: gcc
Compilation CFLAGS: -g -O2
-fdebug-prefix-map=/build/bash-2bxm7h/bash-5.0=.
-fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wall
-Wno-parentheses -Wno-format-security
uname out
On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 10:35:12PM -0400, Dale R. Worley wrote:
> Back in the old, old days, there was a program named "glob" that did
> pathname expansions. So you wouldn't say
>
>cat *
>
> you'd say
>
>cat $( glob * )
Tcl still does it that way. Not with that syntax, but the command
"Chris F.A. Johnson" writes:
> It would be nice if there were an option to allow * to expand sorted
> by timestamp rather than aphabetically.
Generally, a new option is not a good way to accomplish this, as an
option has global effects and can cause other parts of the code to
malfunction.
Back i
It seems to me that people are avoiding both the core issue and its solution.
A standard is what allows people to write software that can be ported
without having to reassess every detail of the program. To take C as an
example, the standard defines what identifiers look like, which
identifiers a
On 8/14/21 8:45 PM, Hunter Wittenborn wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>
> I was doing some testing for some additions to a rather big Bash script I'm
> working on, and the following code kept failing whenever I attempted to run
> it:
>
>
>
> "
>
> variable="hello"
>
>
>
> declare -g "${variable}"=("wo
On 8/14/21 7:56 PM, Keith Thompson wrote:
> Bash Version: 5.1
> Patch Level: 4
> Release Status: maint
>
> Description:
> The builtin "printf" command with the "-v" option works
> correctly, but it reports failure by setting $? to 1.
Thanks for the report.
Chet
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On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 2:00 AM George Nachman wrote:
> Defining an alias named `done` breaks parsing a for loop that does not have
> an `in word` clause.
>
alias done=""
>
Works for me:
$ set -- a b c
$ alias done='echo hi; done'
$ for x do done
hi
hi
hi
Not that I think it's a good idea to
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