Sorry Chet, for some reason I didn't see your reply until after I'd replied to
Chris.
On Wednesday 15 January 2014 07:50:09 Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 1/15/14 5:07 AM, Diggory Hardy wrote:
> > Thanks Chris.
> >
> > So the way I read it is that many people
On Tuesday 14 January 2014 10:57:46 Chris Down wrote:
> On 2014-01-13 20:42:39 -0500, Chet Ramey wrote:
> > You can set the `direxpand' option and probably get around most of this,
> > with the change that variables will be expanded upon completion, as in
> > bash-4.1.
>
> Er, somehow I missed thi
7:03 Chris Down wrote:
> On 2014-01-13 11:00:09 +0100, Diggory Hardy wrote:
> > If I enter
> >
> > $ ls $HOME/Do
> >
> > and press the Tab key, bash expands to
> >
> > $ ls \$HOME/Documents
>
> See this older thread[0].
>
> If you bash &g
remove the escaping back-slash. What's going
on?
I should state that the only reason I noticed this is that I don't have a ~ on
my current keyboard, but still this seems like a valid bug report to me.
Best regards,
Diggory Hardy
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On Friday 10 December 2010 Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 03:23:46PM +0100, Diggory Hardy wrote:
> > What if bash were only to allow scripts to call themselves with exec?
>
> You can't prevent programmers from writing horrible code. At some point,
> it isn&
On Friday 10 December 2010 Pierre Gaston wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Diggory Hardy
> wrote:
> > On Thursday 09 December 2010 Pierre Gaston wrote:
> >> On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Diggory Hardy
> >> wrote:
> >> > Hello,
> >&g
On Thursday 09 December 2010 Pierre Gaston wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Diggory Hardy
> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > With a simple script such as that below, bash can enter an infinite loop of
> > eating memory until the system is rendered unusable
Hello,
With a simple script such as that below, bash can enter an infinite loop of
eating memory until the system is rendered unusable:
#!/bin/bash
PATH=~
infinitely-recurse
Save this as infinitely-recurse in your home directory and run - and make sure
you kill it pretty quick. OK, so an obvio
