On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 09:40:26PM -0500, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 3/8/11 11:12 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:
>
> > I might be able to finesse this particular case based on the state that
> > readline exports to the calling application.
>
> I think I was able to do that. Try the attached patch; it works
On 3/7/11 11:48 PM, Peggy Russell wrote:
> It would be helpful if indirection was explained in the documentation for
> [[ expression ]], [ expression ], and declare.
The existing documentation seems pretty clear:
Shell variables are allowed as operands; parameter expansion is per-
formed befor
> The existing documentation seems pretty clear:
> ...
> The value of a variable is evaluated as an arithmetic expression when
> it is referenced, or when a variable which has been given the integer
> attribute using declare -i is assigned a value. A null value evaluates
> to 0. A shell var
>
> For example:
>
> unset a; declare a="a"; [[ a -lt 3 ]]; echo $?
> bash: [[: a: expression recursion level exceeded (error token is "a")
> 1
>
> Shouldn't the return code from this expression be 2, rather than 1?
What does it matter? Failure is failure.
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On 03/09/2011 02:54 PM, Chet Ramey wrote:
>>
>> For example:
>>
>> unset a; declare a="a"; [[ a -lt 3 ]]; echo $?
>> bash: [[: a: expression recursion level exceeded (error token is "a")
>> 1
>>
>> Shouldn't the return code from this expression be 2, rather than 1?
>
> What does it matter? Failur
> On 03/09/2011 02:54 PM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> >>
> >> For example:
> >>
> >> unset a; declare a="a"; [[ a -lt 3 ]]; echo $?
> >> bash: [[: a: expression recursion level exceeded (error token is "a")
> >> 1
> >>
> >> Shouldn't the return code from this expression be 2, rather than 1?
> >
> > What d
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 5:14 AM, Peggy Russell
wrote:
> > The existing documentation seems pretty clear:
> > ...
> > The value of a variable is evaluated as an arithmetic expression when
> > it is referenced, or when a variable which has been given the integer
> > attribute using declare -i is
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 5:14 AM, Peggy Russell
wrote:
> > The existing documentation seems pretty clear:
> > ...
> > The value of a variable is evaluated as an arithmetic expression when
> > it is referenced, or when a variable which has been given the integer
> > attribute using declare -i is
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