Chet Ramey writes:
> On 9/5/22 6:13 PM, Aryan Bansal wrote:
> >While testing how bash handles foreground and background processes
> >using "&", I found out that the behaviour is sometimes undefined. The
> >prompt sometimes prints just as the background process finishes executing
> >resu
Hi!
> > Here's another:
> >
> > printf -- '%s ' $(gcc --help) | sed 's/ $/\n/'
> >
> > Let just do the shell most of the work ;-)
>
> That's not safe. The unquoted substitution will undergo word splitting,
> which we want, and also globbing, which we do *not* want.
>
> You should at least dis
On 9/4/22 10:48 PM, Hyunho Cho wrote:
Bash Version: 5.1
Patch Level: 16
Release Status: release
##
"gcc --help" is already a short string, but the system hangs.
( without using extended pattern, there is no such problem )
bash$
On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 10:11:00PM +0200, Martin Schulte wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > Running with this assumption, now that we know bash's extglob matching
> > will not perform suitably for this task, we can look at other approaches.
>
> Here's another:
>
> printf -- '%s ' $(gcc --help) | sed 's/ $/\n/'
Hi!
> Running with this assumption, now that we know bash's extglob matching
> will not perform suitably for this task, we can look at other approaches.
Here's another:
printf -- '%s ' $(gcc --help) | sed 's/ $/\n/'
Let just do the shell most of the work ;-)
Best regards,
Martin
On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 11:55:52AM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 9/4/22 10:48 PM, Hyunho Cho wrote:
>
> > Bash Version: 5.1
> > Patch Level: 16
> > Release Status: release
> >
> > ##
> >
> >
> > "gcc --help" is already a short str
On 9/4/22 10:48 PM, Hyunho Cho wrote:
Bash Version: 5.1
Patch Level: 16
Release Status: release
##
"gcc --help" is already a short string, but the system hangs.
A short string? It's 90K on my system.
( without using extended
On 9/5/22 6:13 PM, Aryan Bansal wrote:
>Bash Version: 5.1
>Patch Level: 16
>Release Status: release
>
>Description:
> While testing how bash handles foreground and background processes
>using "&", I found out that the behaviour is sometimes undefined. The
>prompt sometimes prints just as the ba
On 9/2/22 6:28 AM, Koichi Murase wrote:
Bash Version: 5.1
Patch Level: 16
Release Status: release
Description:
In Bash versions from 4.3 to the current devel, after calling `trap'
for SIGINT in completion functions specified to `complete -F',
readline is left in a strange state where
On 9/6/22 9:57 AM, Julian Gilbey wrote:
On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 02:56:12PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
Ah, thanks! May I suggest that adding this information as a note in
the manpage would be very helpful?
The man page says, in the `test' description:
"Each operator and operand must be a sep
On 9/6/22 1:51 AM, Julian Gilbey wrote:
On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 12:03:20AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
On Sep 05 2022, Julian Gilbey wrote:
neither did using \(
instead of (, and neither did putting spaces around the parentheses.
You need to do both.
Ah, thanks! May I suggest that adding
On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 02:56:12PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > > Ah, thanks! May I suggest that adding this information as a note in
> > > the manpage would be very helpful?
> >
> > The man page says, in the `test' description:
> >
> > "Each operator and operand must be a separate argument."
On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 09:25:36AM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 9/6/22 1:51 AM, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 12:03:20AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> > > On Sep 05 2022, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > >
> > > > neither did using \(
> > > > instead of (, and neither did putting spac
On Mon, Sep 05, 2022 at 11:04:41PM -0400, Dale R. Worley wrote:
> Julian Gilbey writes:
> > Upgrading to bash 5.2.0(1)-rc2 did not help, neither did using \(
> > instead of (, and neither did putting spaces around the parentheses.
>
> It's ugly. The first point is that ( and ) are special charac
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