Include column in syntax error message

2015-12-23 Thread Karl-Philipp Richter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, Currently, syntax error messages like ``bash: syntax error near unexpected token `;'``, e.g. after issuing `echo a &; echo b &; echo c &;` aren't as helpful as they could be. It'd be nice to know at which column, i.e. which `;`, the message refer

bashref.texi niglets

2012-08-22 Thread Karl Berry
/books/.) 5) Mention the bash home page. What the heck? 6) Better to send bug reports to the list than you personally? Happy documenting, Karl --- ORIG/bashref.texi 2011-01-16 12:31:57.0 -0800 +++ bashref.texi2012-08-22 08:57:35.0 -0700 @@ -4,7 +4,4 @@ @settitle Bash Re

Re: usenet to email gateway

2011-08-10 Thread Karl Berry
not sure who to report that to I've asked the FSF sysadmins. I can see from the mailing list configuration that the gateway is intended to be operational, but don't know how to debug what it happening from there. Best, Karl

Re: Patch to bashref.texi

2010-05-18 Thread Karl Berry
> hmm as a side effect you broke all the links to bashref.html out there... Oh yeah :). I'll put in a redirect, or something. Thanks, k

Re: Patch to bashref.texi

2010-05-17 Thread Karl Berry
#x27;d be willing to update the manual in the future, I'd be happy to give you the incantation of the gendocs.sh utility (described in maintain.texi) that does all the work. Happy documenting, karl

Re: Bashbug should warn reporters details will be public.

2009-12-28 Thread Karl Goetz
On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 11:50:17 -0500 Chet Ramey wrote: > On 12/25/09 11:28 PM, Karl Goetz wrote: > > > When bashbug is run, the email sent lands in public locations. It > > would be great if it could warn about this. I'm not sure how > > intrusive this change should

Bashbug should warn reporters details will be public.

2009-12-26 Thread Karl Goetz
Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: Machine: i486 OS: linux-gnu Compiler: gcc Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i486' -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i486-pc-linux-gnu' -DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale' -DPACKAGE='ba

Re: [Bash-announce] source of tar, gzip, gunzip, bzip, bunzip2 and compress ???

2008-05-18 Thread Karl Berry
am not quite sure, if this is the right site for this question. [EMAIL PROTECTED] or bug-bash@gnu.org would have been better, but your mistake is understandable. Cc-ing bug-bash here, since this is certainly not an announcement. Where e.g. I can obtain the source code of the commands

Spam Mail Authentication

2005-06-15 Thread karl
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