On 3/16/15 4:30 PM, Eduardo A. Bustamante López wrote:
>> Here's the other side: allowing `set -$-' to succeed keeps a Posix-mode
>> shell running a script from throwing a fatal error. Allowing it also
>> keeps the bug reports down. The same rationale can be used to add -c and
>> -s to the no-op
> Here's the other side: allowing `set -$-' to succeed keeps a Posix-mode
> shell running a script from throwing a fatal error. Allowing it also
> keeps the bug reports down. The same rationale can be used to add -c and
> -s to the no-op flags, since those are command-line options that end up
> i
On 3/13/15 8:47 PM, Eduardo A. Bustamante López wrote:
>> You can avoid these surprises by making -i just as other options, i.e.,
>> working within the shell not just when a shell is started. [..]
> I don't think it's good to have set +/-i available after initialization. It's
> more complex to hand
> You can avoid these surprises by making -i just as other options, i.e.,
> working within the shell not just when a shell is started. [..]
I don't think it's good to have set +/-i available after initialization. It's
more complex to handle, and with little (or null?) gain. If you're using
set -i i
On Friday, March 13, 2015, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 3/12/15 2:13 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
> >>> The -i option obviously works with set. But it is missing in the man
> >>> page. Should this be added?
> >>
> >> No. It's really only there for completeness, so things like `set $-'
> >> work as expected with
On 3/12/15 2:13 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
>>> The -i option obviously works with set. But it is missing in the man
>>> page. Should this be added?
>>
>> No. It's really only there for completeness, so things like `set $-'
>> work as expected without error.
>
> But if something is in the implementation,
On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 1:29 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 01:13:18PM -0500, Peng Yu wrote:
>> One may want to manually set -i option in a bash script for whatever
>> reason. (In this case, it is to check COLUMNS.)
>
> http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/091
This does not work
On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 01:13:18PM -0500, Peng Yu wrote:
> One may want to manually set -i option in a bash script for whatever
> reason. (In this case, it is to check COLUMNS.)
http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/091
>> The -i option obviously works with set. But it is missing in the man
>> page. Should this be added?
>
> No. It's really only there for completeness, so things like `set $-'
> work as expected without error.
But if something is in the implementation, it should be also in the
documentation, righ
On 3/11/15 6:59 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The -i option obviously works with set. But it is missing in the man
> page. Should this be added?
No. It's really only there for completeness, so things like `set $-'
work as expected without error. The -s option does the same thing,
for example.
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Hi,
The -i option obviously works with set. But it is missing in the man
page. Should this be added?
~$ echo $-
himBH
~$ set +i
~$ echo $-
hmBH
The following lines are from the man page.
set [--abefhkmnptuvxBCEHPT] [-o option-name] [arg ...]
set [+abefhkmnptuvxBCEHPT] [+o option-n
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