Improving the manual (was: ${!vname} not documented)

2009-10-07 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 08:16:03AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 03:25:31AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > i imagine Chet takes patches > > When I sent a patch to make the manual more human-friendly (replacing > for example ! with $! so that people can search for

Re: Question about behavior of redirections inside an if construct

2009-01-29 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 05:47:53PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote: > Thomas Schwinge writes: > > These three work as expected. But why doesn't the following one? > > > > tho...@dirichlet:~ $ sh -c 'if : 2> /dev/null < NONEXISTING_FILE; then > &g

Question about behavior of redirections inside an if construct

2009-01-29 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! I'm probably only missing something very obvious, but... tho...@dirichlet:~ $ bash --version GNU bash, version 3.2.39(1)-release (i486-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. tho...@dirichlet:~ $ bash -c 'if { :; } 2> /dev/null < NONEXISTING_FILE; t

Re: Error when configuring bash 3.2

2007-04-09 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 02:36:04AM +0200, Pierre wrote: > [...] > checking whether #! works in shell scripts... ./configure: ./conftest: > /bin/cat: bad interpreter: No such file or directory > yes > [...] On what sort of system is that and what does ``ls -l /bin/cat'' show? Regards, T

Re: Hidden files feature request

2006-11-26 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 10:27:19PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Uno Engborg wrote: > > In Gnome, MacOS-X, and in Kubuntu KDE, you can make a file hidden from > > the desktop environment by listing it in a file called .hidden. > > The .hidden file resides in the same directory as the files to

Problem on GNU/Hurd systems w.r.t. process substitution

2006-11-19 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! There seems to be a problem with bash's usage of named pipes on GNU/Hurd systems. #v+ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ diff -u <(echo a) <(echo b) --- /proc/self/fd/632006-11-19 15:32:53.622504951 +0100 +++ /proc/self/fd/622006-11-19 15:32:53.614508451 +0100 @@ -1 +1 @@ -a +b [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Bash-3.1 Official Patch 10 - UPDATED

2006-03-23 Thread Thomas Schwinge
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 11:10:50AM -0500, Chet Ramey wrote: > Bash-Release: 3.1 > Patch-ID: bash31-010 > [...] > THIS IS AN UPDATED PATCH. [...] Uh. Why couldn't you just release a new patch on top of the old ones instead? Would have been less cumbersomely for build systems where the source an