Re: Trailing null fields are discarded while leading ones are preserved

2006-12-20 Thread Stahlman Family
- Original Message - From: "Chet Ramey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Stahlman Family" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: ; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 9:00 AM Subject: Re: Trailing null fields are discarded while leading ones are preserved Stahlman Family wrote: I guess t

Re: Trailing null fields are discarded while leading ones are preserved

2006-12-20 Thread Chet Ramey
Stahlman Family wrote: > Ok. I have found an IEEE interpretation for 1003.2-1992 3.6.5 > (interpretation #98) on the web, and I see that the behavior is correct. > The thing that wasn't quite clarified by the clarification is the > question: "If IFS serves only to terminate fields, then how is it

Re: help text per column instead of per row [patch]

2006-12-20 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Attached patch prints the builtin commands alphabetically per > column and uses a total width of 80 characters. Here is a better patch. It also puts a ">" in the last column position of the strings that are longer than the available width. To find the width of the cur