On 2021-12-13 at 11:23 +, Kerin Millar wrote:
> You mentioned being confused by how the and's and or's combine. The
> wording of the bash man page seems marginally less ambiguous in that
> regard, partly owing to its sparse use of the comma.
>
> "An interactive shell is one started without non
On Sun, 12 Dec 2021 23:51:22 -0800
Mallika wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Thanks for the quick response! And for clearing up what 'option arguments'
> means.
>
> I'm not sure I understood the last bit, though
> >Something like "with only option arguments" could easily be misunderstood
> as "with one or more
On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 8:31 AM Mallika wrote:
> "An interactive shell is one started without non-option arguments, unles*s*
> -s is specified, without specifying the -c option, and whose input and
> error output are both connected to terminals (as determined by isatty(3)), or
> one started with
Or maybe "started without non-option arguments, i.e. without a command or
filename"?
On Sun, Dec 12, 2021 at 11:51 PM Mallika wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Thanks for the quick response! And for clearing up what 'option arguments'
> means.
>
> I'm not sure I understood the last bit, though
> >Something like
Hi!
Thanks for the quick response! And for clearing up what 'option arguments'
means.
I'm not sure I understood the last bit, though
>Something like "with only option arguments" could easily be misunderstood
as "with one or more option arguments".
Are you saying that the 'only' could be easily i
On Sun, Dec 12, 2021, at 9:03 PM, Mallika wrote:
> I'm a little confused about how all the and's and or's combine (I suppose
> it's obvious if you're a little more familiar with the material - but it
> would be great if it were possible to express this by indentation),
It's a relatively confusing
