On Sun, 17 Jul 2022 at 17:01, Robert Elz wrote:
> For just getting the word size, a better solution would be to request a
> new predefined variable (eg: BASH_ARITH_BITS) which contains the number
> of bits used for arithmetic. Inventing new mechanisms so you can compute
> it dynamically is craz
Chet Ramey wrote in
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|On 7/16/22 1:44 PM, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
|> I realized there is no unsigned right shift in bash arithmetic
|> expression, and thought maybe there is interest.
|
|Thanks. There aren't any unsigned operators in shell arithmetic now, what
|makes this one necessary?
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On 7/18/22 2:11 AM, Koichi Murase wrote:
Here is another patch that was pending.
Bash Version: 5.2
Commit 87a6e89edc7cb1af057e2c15666df189595d305b (the current devel)
Description:
When `shopt -s patsub_replacement' is turned on and the pattern
string `pat' of ${var/$pat/"&"} is just an a
Hello Chet,
on 2022-07-18 10:26:05 -0400 you wrote:
> On 7/16/22 11:18 AM, Martin Schulte wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm just wondering that bash (reproduced with 5.2-rc1 under Debian 11)
> > seems to determine LINES and COLUMNS from stderr.
>
> ...
> When it's not interactive, all bets are off
On 7/17/22 6:48 PM, Koichi Murase wrote:
1) "set -e" is set.
2) The code is executed from a script file.
3) Shadowing of local readonly variables is attempted in a trap handler.
This exact set of conditions, plus the requirement that it must be an
exit trap handler and the `exit' builtin must
On 7/16/22 11:18 AM, Martin Schulte wrote:
Hello,
I'm just wondering that bash (reproduced with 5.2-rc1 under Debian 11) seems to
determine LINES and COLUMNS from stderr.
It uses stderr because if the shell is interactive, stderr is guaranteed to
be a terminal, and that's the file descriptor
On 7/17/22 6:48 PM, Koichi Murase wrote:
2022年7月18日(月) 6:40 Chet Ramey :
On 7/15/22 7:06 PM, Koichi Murase wrote:
We can shadow local readonly variables. What we cannot are global
readonly variables.
It seems to me a bug.
It's not a bug. Bash-2.04 introduced behavior to disallow local variab
