On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 10:49:20AM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 5/30/11 2:05 PM, Raphaël Droz wrote:
> > It seems like if gnu.bash@googlegroups.com eat the first occurrence
> > of this email (not in the mailman archives)... second attempt:
> >
> > === Rationale:
> > Let's say you want to comp
On 6/16/11 3:55 PM, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote:
> Actually, this relates to a thing I'd been looking into recently. My
> bash history is 11MB now, and on some machines I have a noticeable load
> time as it reads the history. I'd thought about adding support for
> incremental read to bash history/read
Hi folks,
A colleague pointed me to this problem: If I run
( set -e; ( false; echo x ) )
in bash 4.1.5, then there is no screen output, as
expected. If I change this to
( set -e; ( false; echo x ) || echo y )
then I get "x" instead of "y". How comes?
Any helpful comment would
On 06/24/2011 03:51 AM, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> A colleague pointed me to this problem: If I run
>
> ( set -e; ( false; echo x ) )
>
> in bash 4.1.5, then there is no screen output, as
> expected. If I change this to
>
> ( set -e; ( false; echo x ) || echo y )
>
> then
http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/105 -- Why doesn't set -e (set -o
errexit) do what I expected?
Hi all,
This is my first post to this mailing list. If I'm doing anything that
is not right, please do let me know.
While upgrading my company's Linux distribution, I also upgrade Bash to
version 4.2-10, and found a glitch, that I consider a BUG. However I
might be doing something wrong. He
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 06:18:08PM +0100, Rui Santos wrote:
> Try this script:
> #!/bin/bash
>
> declare -ax array
> array[$(( $( echo -n 1001 ) - 1001 ))]=1
>
> this will issue an error: line 6: 1001: command not found
imadev:~$ unset array
imadev:~$ array[$(( $( echo -n 1001 ) - 1001 ))]=1
ima
On 6/24/11 1:18 PM, Rui Santos wrote:
> Try this script:
> #!/bin/bash
>
> declare -ax array
> array[$(( $( echo -n 1001 ) - 1001 ))]=1
>
> this will issue an error: line 6: 1001: command not found
>
> If however the script is turned into:
> #!/bin/bash
>
> declare -ax array
> array[$(( `echo
