Feel free to write a patch.
RR
On Sat, 24 Dec 2011 15:08:34 -0600
Bill Gradwohl articulated:
> My original post was only to suggest that instead of more bells and
> whistles, talent should be applied towards the documentation of what
> is already there.
Bill, it is a well known fact that the developers of a product are
usually
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Chris Jones wrote:
> I find it rather ironical that your rant should amount to a clumsy
> rewording of section 6.1, GNU Manuals, from the GNU Coding Standards:
>
> http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/GNU-Manuals.html#GNU-Manuals
>
> Followed that link and
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 10:08:31AM EST, Bill Gradwohl wrote:
[..]
> The man page is written the way Robbie the Robot used to speak in the old
> black and white TV days¹. Short, cryptic and in many cases unintelligible IN
> THE DETAILS. Alternatively, one might snicker that some lawyer wrote it to
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Bill Gradwohl wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
>
>> People complain about the readability of code enough already, and as
>> practice shows, things like [[ have been around and nobody uses them
>> anyway (often using just POSIX, but
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> People complain about the readability of code enough already, and as
> practice shows, things like [[ have been around and nobody uses them
> anyway (often using just POSIX, but not even knowing – myself included
> – that POSIX sh has $((…
Eric Blake dixit:
>powerful approach. Can we get buy-in from other shell developers to
>support '>;' as an atomic temp-file replacement-on-success idiom, if
Urgh, PLEASE NOT!
People complain about the readability of code enough already, and as
practice shows, things like [[ have been around and
2011/12/22 Bruce Korb
>
> When the exact opposite is the useful variation? I.e. keep-on-failure.
> "-i" for sed is simple, understandable and implemented a lot.
>
As far as I know, -i is only implemented with GNU sed and BSD sed, and they
are incompatible, BSD sed's -i takes a mandatory argument
cc: ebl...@redhat.com bug-bash@gnu.org d...@vger.kernel.org
miros-disc...@mirbsd.org
Subject: Re: '>;' redirection operator [was: [1003.1(2008)/Issue 7 530]:
Support in-place editing in sed (-iEXTENSION)]
> On 12/22/2011 08:39 AM, David Korn wrote:
> > Su
On 12/22/11 13:03, Eric Blake wrote:
I assume on the ksh implementation that the temp file is discarded if
the command (simple or compound) feeding the redirection failed?
One would hope!
If the
redirection is used on a simple command, is there any shorthand for
specifying that the destinati
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