On Fri, Mar 31, 2023, 3:02 PM Martin Schulte
wrote:
> Hi Dennis,
>
> thanks for your answer!
>
> > This isn't regex.
>
> Sure!
>
> > It's a command synopsis using a long standing notation
> > style. You can see it set out in POSIX in
> >
> https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs
Date:Fri, 31 Mar 2023 14:41:37 -0400
From:Chet Ramey
Message-ID: <625e93f4-280b-2cd4-f84d-2305bd347...@case.edu>
| On 3/31/23 12:30 PM, Martin Schulte wrote:
| > Hi Chet!
| >
| >> Thanks for the report. The synopsis should read
| >>
| >> cd [-L|[-P [-e]]]
On Fri, Mar 31, 2023, 2:47 PM Martin Schulte
wrote:
> Hi Chet!
>
> > >> Thanks for the report. The synopsis should read
> > >>
> > >> cd [-L|[-P [-e]]] [-@] [dir]
> > > ^ ^
> > > But aren't these two brackets just superfluous?
> >
> > -L and -P are mutually exclusive, and -e is va
Hi Chet!
> >> Thanks for the report. The synopsis should read
> >>
> >> cd [-L|[-P [-e]]] [-@] [dir]
> > ^ ^
> > But aren't these two brackets just superfluous?
>
> -L and -P are mutually exclusive, and -e is valid only when -P is
> supplied.
Yes, my feeling was just that | has s
On 3/31/23 12:30 PM, Martin Schulte wrote:
Hi Chet!
Thanks for the report. The synopsis should read
cd [-L|[-P [-e]]] [-@] [dir]
^ ^
But aren't these two brackets just superfluous?
-L and -P are mutually exclusive, and -e is valid only when -P is
supplied.
--
``The lyf so s
On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 06:30:00PM +0200, Martin Schulte wrote:
> Hi Chet!
>
> > Thanks for the report. The synopsis should read
> >
> > cd [-L|[-P [-e]]] [-@] [dir]
> ^ ^
> But aren't these two brackets just superfluous?
Then -L would get the -e too.
--
Regards, Mike Jonkmans
Hi Chet!
> Thanks for the report. The synopsis should read
>
> cd [-L|[-P [-e]]] [-@] [dir]
^ ^
But aren't these two brackets just superfluous?
Best regards,
Martin
On 3/31/23 3:42 AM, Ikenna West wrote:
Hello, I was going looking through the Bash reference manual and I noticed
that on page 55, when it lists the options for the cd command it is written
as cd [-L|[-P [-e]] [-@] [directory]. However, when typing help cd into
Bash it prints out
cd [-L | [-P
Hello, I was going looking through the Bash reference manual and I
noticed that on page 55, when it lists the options for the cd command it
is written as cd [-L|[-P [-e]] [-@] [directory]. However, when typing
help cd into Bash it prints out
cd [-L | [-P [-e]] [-@]] [dir]
So it looks like the
