On Sat, Apr 1, 2023 at 6:35 PM Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
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> On Sat, Apr 1, 2023, at 8:02 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> > In that example they are discussing whether or not to make that
> > behavior a *requirement*. That is prescriptive.
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> You're so busy preten
On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 1:20 PM Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 30, 2023, at 2:25 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> > The challenge is in deciding what they *should* do, which is not
> > descriptive, but prescriptive.
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> The Austin Group does not see its role as p
On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 11:48 AM Oğuz İsmail Uysal
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> On 3/30/23 7:51 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> > So? This is argumentum ad populum. The fact that most shells do X
> > doesn't imply that POSIX says X.
> POSIX documents existing practice.
Your definition
On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 11:22 AM Kerin Millar wrote:
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> On Thu, 30 Mar 2023 07:51:59 -0600
> Felipe Contreras wrote:
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> > On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 5:23 AM Greg Wooledge wrote:
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> > > On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 05:12:46AM -0600, Felipe Contreras wrote:
&g
On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 9:52 AM Emanuele Torre wrote:
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> On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 07:51:59AM -0600, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> > But you can't replicate 'a,b' that way, because b does not have a
> > terminator. Obviously we'll want 'b' as a field, t
On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 10:10 AM Oğuz İsmail Uysal
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> On 3/30/23 2:12 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> > IFS=,
> > str='foo,bar,,roo,'
> > printf '"%s"\n' $str
> zsh is the only shell that generates an empty last fie
On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 5:23 AM Greg Wooledge wrote:
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> On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 05:12:46AM -0600, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> > IFS=,
> > str='foo,bar,,roo,'
> > printf '"%s"\n' $str
> >
> > There is a discrepancy bet
ersion: 5.1.16(1)-release
* platform: x86_64 Arch Linux
* compiler: gcc 12.2.1
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https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_18_06_05
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ersion: 5.1.16(1)-release
* platform: x86_64 Arch Linux
* compiler: gcc 12.2.1
[1]
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_18_06_05
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