On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 3:50 PM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 8/18/15 1:43 PM, Dan Douglas wrote:
>> On Tuesday, August 18, 2015 9:54:55 AM CDT Isaac Good wrote:
>>> Would you mind sharing the rational behind having it undocumented?
>>
>> Since I like guessing: the syntax for parameter expansion operato
On 8/18/15 1:43 PM, Dan Douglas wrote:
> On Tuesday, August 18, 2015 9:54:55 AM CDT Isaac Good wrote:
>> Would you mind sharing the rational behind having it undocumented?
>
> Since I like guessing: the syntax for parameter expansion operators is
> currently non-extensible, so the namespace of te
On Tuesday, August 18, 2015 9:54:55 AM CDT Isaac Good wrote:
> Would you mind sharing the rational behind having it undocumented?
Since I like guessing: the syntax for parameter expansion operators is
currently non-extensible, so the namespace of terse operators is in limited
supply. New syntax
Would you mind sharing the rational behind having it undocumented?
On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 7:38 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 8/18/15 9:50 AM, Dan Douglas wrote:
>
> >> Description:
> >> The man page fails to document the ${var~} and ${var~~} case inversion
> >> expansion.
> >> It got the upper and
On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 09:22:07AM -0500, Dan Douglas wrote:
> The `~` is obviously inspired by the vim
> movement to toggle caps.
~ is standard vi, not a vim extension.
On 8/18/15 9:50 AM, Dan Douglas wrote:
>> Description:
>> The man page fails to document the ${var~} and ${var~~} case inversion
>> expansion.
>> It got the upper and lower, ie ${var^} and ${var,} but not invert.
>>
>> Fix:
>> More documentation.
>
> I'm pretty sure that's intentional. The corres
On Tuesday, August 18, 2015 08:50:51 AM Dan Douglas wrote:
> I'm pretty sure that's intentional. The corresponding `declare -c` has never
> been documented either.
>
Hrm, it doesn't "correspond" actually. declare -c just capitalizes the first
letter of the string.
Another thing about the ${var
On Monday, August 17, 2015 01:08:55 PM Isaac Good wrote:
> Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
> Machine: i686
> OS: linux-gnu
> Compiler: gcc
> Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i686'
> -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i686-pc-linu
