On 8/15/23 9:57 PM, Wiley Young wrote:
From within a stack of x3 functions called from a case within a for loop,
when trying to assign a value to a read-only variable, `printf` and `read`
both fail with exit codes of 1, and the functions, `case` and `for`
commands all complete. When trying eff
On Wed, 16 Aug 2023 at 14:24, Dennis Williamson
wrote:
> Your use of colon as a comment character is confusing.
>
Colon is only confusing if one mistakes it for a comment.
Colon is not a comment, it's a command, and therefore included in xtrace
output.
Of course, the real problem is that colon'
On Tue, Aug 15, 2023 at 11:24:31PM -0500, Dennis Williamson wrote:
> Your use of colon as a comment character is confusing.
They're running with set -x, so presumably they used those : commands
to mark the set -x output with various labels. Which seems nominally
clever, except they didn't *show*
On Tue, Aug 15, 2023 at 8:57 PM Wiley Young wrote:
> So this behavior of `bash`s seems like a bug to me. I stumbled across it by
> accident.
>
> From within a stack of x3 functions called from a case within a for loop,
> when trying to assign a value to a read-only variable, `printf` and `read`
>
