[BUG] Bad call to dircolors in /etc/bash.bashrc on LMDE

2018-11-01 Thread Philip Hudson
Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: Machine: x86_64 OS: linux-gnu Compiler: gcc Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='x86_64' -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' -DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale' -DPACKAGE

Re: echo '-e' doesn't work as expected, or does it?

2012-01-21 Thread Philip
Am Sat, 21 Jan 2012 12:24:03 +0100 schrieb Philip : > Hi! Short question this time.. > > $ echo '-e' > does not print -e > > $ echo '-e ' > does print -e . > > Is this the way as it ought to be? GNU bash, Version 4.1.5(1)-release (Debian >

echo '-e' doesn't work as expected, or does it?

2012-01-21 Thread Philip
Hi! Short question this time.. $ echo '-e' does not print -e $ echo '-e ' does print -e . Is this the way as it ought to be? GNU bash, Version 4.1.5(1)-release (Debian stable) Regards

Re: bash sends SIGHUP to disowned children in non-interactive mode

2011-12-28 Thread Philip
d. The xterm window is still there because of the -hold parameter. I get the exact same behavior if I use "(xclock &)" instead. So without job control bash might (I know, we don't know for sure) send the SIGHUP to all processes started in the shell, whether child by definition or not? Shouldn't the -i flag enable job control by the way? Regards, Philip

Re: bash sends SIGHUP to disowned children in non-interactive mode

2011-12-28 Thread Philip
Am Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:48:45 -0500 schrieb Greg Wooledge : > > If you want to disown something, you have to *stop* doing this double-fork > nonsense. > > #!/bin/bash > set -m > xterm & > disown -h > > Do not put (...) around the background job. When you do that, the main > bash process loses i

Re: IMPLEMENTATION [Re: Hightlighting in bash]

2011-03-10 Thread Philip Prindeville
On 3/10/11 12:50 PM, Micah Cowan wrote: (03/10/2011 12:28 PM), Micah Cowan wrote: (03/10/2011 11:53 AM), Micah Cowan wrote: (03/10/2011 11:42 AM), Philip Prindeville wrote: My request is simple. Using termcap/ncurses info (which you need anyway for the readline stuff), it would be nice to

Re: Hightlighting in bash

2011-03-10 Thread Philip Prindeville
On 3/10/11 11:53 AM, Micah Cowan wrote: (03/10/2011 11:42 AM), Philip Prindeville wrote: My request is simple. Using termcap/ncurses info (which you need anyway for the readline stuff), it would be nice to have the option of running commands in a pseudo-tty and then bracketing the output from

Hightlighting in bash

2011-03-10 Thread Philip Prindeville
but profuse output that logs commands being invoked, etc. Does this seem doable? Thanks, -Philip

Re: Wanted: bash enhancement... non-blocking 'wait'

2010-09-03 Thread Philip Prindeville
On 9/3/10 10:44 AM, Eric Blake wrote: On 09/02/2010 04:44 PM, Philip Prindeville wrote: I wanted to check in and see if there was a chance of this feature being accepted upstream before I spent any time on it... so here goes. The "wait [n]" command is handy, but would be even

Wanted: bash enhancement... non-blocking 'wait'

2010-09-03 Thread Philip Prindeville
nd detached when it successfully connected, causing the original instance to exit with 0; anything else would return non-zero.) Does this seem like a reasonable enhancement? Thanks, -Philip

Brokenness in bash-3.2 Makefile

2010-01-12 Thread Philip A. Prindeville
could test? Thanks, -Philip

Re: read builtin breaks autocompletion

2006-01-22 Thread Philip Rowlands
Ping On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Philip Rowlands wrote: In builtins/read.def (from bash-3.0.tar.gz): 677 old_attempted_completion_function = rl_attempted_completion_function; 678 rl_attempted_completion_function = (rl_completion_func_t *)NULL; 679 ret = readline (p); 680

Re: read builtin breaks autocompletion

2005-12-07 Thread Philip Rowlands
In builtins/read.def (from bash-3.0.tar.gz): 677 old_attempted_completion_function = rl_attempted_completion_function; 678 rl_attempted_completion_function = (rl_completion_func_t *)NULL; 679 ret = readline (p); 680 rl_attempted_completion_function = old_attempted_completion_funct

Re: read builtin breaks autocompletion

2005-12-02 Thread Philip Rowlands
On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Chet Ramey wrote: I can't reproduce it, using bash-2.05b and bash-3.0 on MacOS X and Red Hat Linux. I don't use any custom completions or the bash-completion package, though, so I don't know what effect those might have. Hmm, I did take pains not to have any .inputrc or co

read builtin breaks autocompletion

2005-12-02 Thread Philip Rowlands
Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: Machine: i586 OS: linux-gnu Compiler: gcc Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i586' -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i586-mandrake-linux-gnu' -DCONF_VENDOR='mandrake' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale' -