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From: "Chet Ramey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Stahlman Family" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: ; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 5:36 PM
Subject: Re: Unexpected behavior observed when using [EMAIL
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> Note that the goal in the examples below is to prepend "-iname '" (portion
> within double quotes only) to each of the 2 elements in the original array,
> without changing the number of words. i.e., the new array should contain the
> following 2 words:
> -iname 'abc
> -iname 'def
Thanks for
This post is essentially a follow-up to a previous post, initially made just
before New Year's, which appears to have been overlooked. After making the
original post, I delved into the bash source to determine why I was seeing the
behavior described, and what I found convinced me that the behavior
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From: "Stahlman Family" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2006 4:18 PM
Subject: Unexpected behavior observed when using [EMAIL
PROTECTED]/pattern/string} construct
While writing a script that uses the [EMAIL PROTECTED
While writing a script that uses the [EMAIL PROTECTED]/pattern/string}
construct,
I encountered behaviors I cannot reconcile with the text in the bash manual.
I've pasted snippets from a command line session below (with comments
interspersed) that shows the apparent issues.
Perhaps some of the c
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From: "Chet Ramey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Stahlman Family" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: ; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 7:26 AM
Subject: Re: Trailing null fields are discarded while leading ones are prese
- Original Message -
From: "Chet Ramey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Stahlman Family" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: ; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 9:00 AM
Subject: Re: Trailing null fields are discarded while leading ones are preserv
Although the section on word splitting in the Bash manual makes no distinction between leading and trailing null fields, Bash's word
splitting algorithm will not preserve a trailing null field. The reason for this appears to be the following logic in list_string
(much omitted):
for (result = (W
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From: "Chet Ramey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Stahlman Family" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: ; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 2:01 PM
Subject: Re: Despite text in gnu bash manual, quote removal appears to be
