On 12/20/24 7:30 PM, 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 manual.
If the argument cont
On 12/21/24 7:29 PM, Robert Elz wrote:
I'm not sure of its origins (it was proposed to POSIX decades ago),
Chet can confirm, but I suspect bash picked it up from the proposal
to POSIX.
It predated that. There was a group of shell implementors who got together
to discuss possible POSIX extensio
On 12/20/24 11:04 AM, Zachary Santer wrote:
Explicitly attempting to expand any one of those with a parameter
expansion when it's unset and 'set -u' is active will cause bash to
error out. ${| command; } is likewise also an explicit attempt to
expand the value of a variable, this time the instan
