On Fri, Dec 20, 2024 at 19:30:49 -0500, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 20, 2024, at 8:09 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > help -d cdoes not exactly match anything, so it's treated like c\*
>
> Is this documented somewhere? I'm not seeing anything about it in
> the man page or texinfo man
On Fri, Dec 20, 2024, at 8:09 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> help -d cdoes not exactly match anything, so it's treated like c\*
Is this documented somewhere? I'm not seeing anything about it in
the man page or texinfo manual.
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On Sat, 21 Dec 2024, 04:01 Zachary Santer, wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 20, 2024 at 11:50 AM Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > I don't think your definition of "explicit" matches mine.
>
> ${variable} and ${| command; } are explicit expansions in the sense
> that I had to write them in the script for the expansi
On Fri, Dec 20, 2024 at 11:50 AM Greg Wooledge wrote:
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> On Fri, Dec 20, 2024 at 11:04:35 -0500, Zachary Santer wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 19, 2024 at 11:08 AM Chet Ramey wrote:
> > > So you're saying that bash looking at a specific variable and using its
> > > value should fail if that variable is
On Fri, Dec 20, 2024 at 11:04:35 -0500, Zachary Santer wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 19, 2024 at 11:08 AM Chet Ramey wrote:
> > So you're saying that bash looking at a specific variable and using its
> > value should fail if that variable is unset? How far do you want to
> > take that? PS2? PS4? GLOBIGNORE
On Thu, Dec 19, 2024 at 11:08 AM Chet Ramey wrote:
>
> On 12/18/24 9:39 PM, Zachary Santer wrote:
>
> > If one wants to use funsubs that don't expand to anything as a
> > workaround like this, it might be more efficient to use the ${|
> > command; } form, as bash then isn't pointlessly redirecting
On Fri, Dec 20, 2024 at 04:50:17 -0800, Wiley Young wrote:
> For some reason, while `help -d 'c'` prints the same thing as `help -c
> 'c*'` (note the asterisk), the same is not true when the character is
> left-bracket: `help -c '[*'.
Why did you expect them to be the same? Assuming you meant -d
Testing how bash's help builtin responds to each character.
For some reason, while `help -d 'c'` prints the same thing as `help -c
'c*'` (note the asterisk), the same is not true when the character is
left-bracket: `help -c '[*'. This issue persists on bash 5.3 beta.
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