$ help wait
doesn't mention that PID must be a child of this shell.
Nor does it advise how to wait if PID is not a child of this shell.
User wanted to do
noffle --f &
(wait $!; noffle -f) &
for better or worse.
User forced to use
(noffle -f; noffle -f)&
___
Dan Jacobson wrote:
> $ help wait
> doesn't mention that PID must be a child of this shell.
> Nor does it advise how to wait if PID is not a child of this shell.
There's no way to do this, you know. Since the underlying plumbing
is not there, there's no need to mention the limitation.
Chet
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
> Machine: i686
> OS: cygwin
> Compiler: gcc
> Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash.exe' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i686'
> -DCONF_OSTYPE='cygwin' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i686-pc-cygwin'
> -DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DLOCALEDIR='
> Machine Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu
>
> Bash Version: 3.0
> Patch Level: 0
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
> It is not possible to selectively disable the history expansion with
>--disable-bang-history
Fixed, thanks.
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``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
J.O. Aho wrote:
>
> Got a bit irritated when updating my Gentoo boxes to use bash 3.00.16,
> the \W and \w options for the prompt now replaces the home directory
> name to tilde, I hope I'm not the only one who wants to see the home
> directory name instead of the tilde.
>
> Wouldn't it be possib
Dan Jacobson wrote:
> If I put the cursor between the last two items,
> $ search 鼓山 福州
> and type ESC t, I get
> $ s 福州 鼓山earch
> Whereas in real emacs, I correctly get
> $ search 福州 鼓山
I did some work after 3.0 was released to make forward-word and
backward-word
work correctly with multibyt
I realized I didn't send you this in my first email.
From: root
To: bug-bash@gnu.org
Subject: [50 character or so descriptive subject here (for reference)]
Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
Machine: powerpc
OS: aix5.2.0.0
Compiler: gcc
Compilation CFLAGS: -DPRO
bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.00.0(1)-release (powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0)
Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
I am running AIX 5.2.
I copied the /etc/DIR_COLORS from a linux box, and added the
alias ls='ls --color=auto' to my .bashrc file.
It mostly seems to work. The colors fo
Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
Machine: i386
OS: linux-gnu
Compiler: i386-redhat-linux-gcc
Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i386'
-DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i386-redhat-linux-gnu'
-DCONF_VENDOR='redhat' -DSHELL -DHAVE_CONF
