Re: Issues when func name is the same with an alias

Le 04/08/2010 15:29, Clark J. Wang a écrit : > I do not agree. Aliases are much simpler to use than functions. Please provide examples.

Re: RFE: allow double quotes to group multi-words & be treated as 1 arg, w/DQ's stripped off -- including RH =~

On 8/4/2010 10:07 PM, Chet Ramey wrote: > On 8/4/10 8:31 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > >> In fact, putting the ERE-pattern you want to match against into a variable >> and then using =~ $variable *is* the recommended practice, if you need to >> use =~ at all. It is the only way to get consistent r

Re: RFE: allow double quotes to group multi-words & be treated as 1 arg, w/DQ's stripped off -- including RH =~

Linda Walsh writes: > Or, why should double quotes be functionally the same as single quotes > in that situation? Handling it different from glob meta characters would make it even more special. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756

Re: RFE: allow double quotes to group multi-words & be treated as 1 arg, w/DQ's stripped off -- including RH =~

On 8/5/10 2:56 AM, Linda Walsh wrote: > Couldn't you have limited to single quotes -- reserving to them the > function of literalizing what is between them. No. That's not the difference between single and double quotes. Why would I complicate things further? > Otherwise, could you think other

Re: Fix testsuite errors due to shell quoted parameter expansion issue.

On 8/3/10 4:55 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > [adding autoconf to document some shell bugs] > > On 08/03/2010 02:32 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >> Interesting shell unportability: >> >> $ bash -c 'f=" val" e=; echo "$e"$f' >> val >> $ ksh -c 'f=" val" e=; echo "$e"$f' >> val >> >> ksh93, dash, zsh all do

Re: Issues when func name is the same with an alias

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Marc Herbert wrote: > Le 04/08/2010 15:29, Clark J. Wang a écrit : > > I do not agree. Aliases are much simpler to use than functions. > > Please provide examples. > > The following is a part of my aliases. I'll have to write much more code if I define them all as

Re: Issues when func name is the same with an alias

On Fri, 6 Aug 2010, Clark J. Wang wrote: On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Marc Herbert wrote: Le 04/08/2010 15:29, Clark J. Wang a écrit : I do not agree. Aliases are much simpler to use than functions. Please provide examples. The following is a part of my aliases. I'll have to write much

Re: Issues when func name is the same with an alias

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 6 Aug 2010, Clark J. Wang wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Marc Herbert >> wrote: >> >> Le 04/08/2010 15:29, Clark J. Wang a écrit : >>> I do not agree. Aliases are much simpler to use than functions. >>> >>