On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 02:09:23PM -0400, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2024, at 12:54 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > Also, I don't see the lower-case k transformation in the man page.
>
> It's at the end of the list:
>
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/tree/doc/bash.1?id=f
Hi not sure if this is the correct forum...
exit builtin accepts one and only one arg currently.
Would it be backwards compatible and generally useful to support echoing a
reason for exiting?
test -f file || exit 2 "file not found"
good bash scripters handle and report errors
have seen lots
On Fri, Mar 22, 2024, at 12:54 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> Also, I don't see the lower-case k transformation in the man page.
It's at the end of the list:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/tree/doc/bash.1?id=f3b6bd1#n3525
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vq
On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 11:23:35AM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
> This is what you can do with @K.
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2021-08/msg00119.html
>
> Word splitting doesn't happen on the rhs of an assignment statement, so you
> use eval. The @K quoting is eval-safe.
It would b
On 3/22/24 2:40 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
$ diff -u :check[34].log
--- :check3.log 2024-03-21 14:09:48.069094929 -0700
+++ :check4.log 2024-03-21 22:39:51.391869014 -0700
@@ -327,6 +327,10 @@
warning: UNIX versions number signals and schedule processes differently.
warning: If output differ
On 3/20/24 10:16 AM, Zachary Santer wrote:
and then uses eval in his examples of how Bash could incorporate
similar behavior:
array=( val1 "val2*[special-chars]" )
printf -v serialized "%q " "${array[@]}"
eval "deserialized=($serialized)"
declare-A hash=( [key1]=val1 ['key2*[special-chars]'
