Change in reaction to C-c (SIGINT) in an interactive shell

Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: Machine: i486 OS: gnu Compiler: gcc Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i486' -DCONF_OSTYPE='gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i486-pc-gnu' -DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale' -DPACKAGE='bash' -DSHELL -DHAVE

Improving the manual (was: ${!vname} not documented)

Hello! On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 08:16:03AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 03:25:31AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > i imagine Chet takes patches > > When I sent a patch to make the manual more human-friendly (replacing > for example ! with $! so that people can search for

Re: Change in reaction to C-c (SIGINT) in an interactive shell

tschwi...@gnu.org wrote: > Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: > Machine: i486 > OS: gnu > Compiler: gcc > Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i486' > -DCONF_OSTYPE='gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i486-pc-gnu' -DCONF_VENDOR='pc' > -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/

Cannot form valid test expressions that involve brackets as string comparison targets

Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: Machine: i686 OS: linux-gnu Compiler: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i686' -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i686-pc-linux-gnu' -DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/loca

ignoring comments in a 'cat' call

I have a file with a list of programs with comments describing what they do, e.g. unison # file syncronisation grass # gis program I have a script, which I run as root and includes the command: m...@me:~$ aptitude install $(cat programs) -y where 'programs' is the file with the list of program

Re: ignoring comments in a 'cat' call

On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Tamlyn1978 wrote: > I have a file with a list of programs with comments describing what they do, > e.g. > > unison # file syncronisation > grass # gis program > > I have a script, which I run as root and includes the command: > > m...@me:~$ aptitude install $(cat programs) -

Re: Cannot form valid test expressions that involve brackets as string comparison targets

On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Lyall Pearce wrote: > > Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: > Machine: i686 > OS: linux-gnu > Compiler: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc > Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i686' > -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i686-pc-lin