Re: quotes invade positional parameters

2010-12-22 Thread Chet Ramey
> > Well anyway, it would be 'no skin off of bash's back' if it just > > reported what it was given. It's the difference between what bash reads and its translation to an internal form based on words. The words are then translated to an external form with quoting added to make the original and ex

Re: quotes invade positional parameters

2010-12-22 Thread jidanni
Indeed, it is more compact to report ' a' than \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ a OK OK... see you next bug.

wildcard characters being evaluated improperly?

2010-12-22 Thread goffe
Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: Machine: x86_64 OS: linux-gnu Compiler: gcc Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='x86_64' -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' -DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale' -DPACKA

Minor documentation suggestion: while/until

2010-12-22 Thread jeffrey.hae...@gmail.com
Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: Machine: i686 OS: linux-gnu Compiler: gcc Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i686' -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i686-pc-linux-gnu' -DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale' -DPACKAGE='bash

Re: wildcard characters being evaluated improperly?

2010-12-22 Thread Andreas Schwab
go...@google.com writes: > I enter the following commands and get the following results. I am > intending that the whole string be sent to a remote system where any > wildcard characters would be evaluated. From below, it appears that > my wildcard characters are being eval

Re: Minor documentation suggestion: while/until

2010-12-22 Thread Dennis Williamson
In this context, "list" represents a syntactic element rather than a literal variable. If you read the section above, titled "Lists", you'll see: Lists A list is a sequence of one or more pipelines separated by one of the operators ;, &, &&, or ⎪⎪, and optionally terminated by one

Re: wildcard characters being evaluated improperly?

2010-12-22 Thread Chet Ramey
On 12/22/10 3:25 PM, go...@google.com wrote: > Repeat-By: > I enter the following commands and get the following results. I am > intending that the whole string be sent to a remote system where any > wildcard characters would be evaluated. From below, it appears that > my w