Re: help-b...@gnu.org mailing list

2011-12-12 Thread Timothy Madden
On 22.11.2011 20:06, Bob Proulx wrote: Clark J. Wang wrote: This list distributes, to the active maintainers of BASH (the Bourne Again SHell), bug reports and fixes for, and suggestions for improvements in BASH. User discussion of BASH also occurs here. My understanding is Chet wants "U

FIFO silently ignored on . ( `source´ ) command

2011-12-12 Thread Timothy Madden
[cross-posted on bug-bash@gnu.org (gmane.comp.shells.bash.bugs) and help-b...@gnu.org] Hello I have GNU bash, version 3.2.25(1)-release (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) on an up-to-date CentOS 5.7 (Final) x64, and GNU bash, version 4.1.10(4)-release (i686-pc-cygwin) on Windows 7 x64 SP1.

Re: invoke tilde expansion on quoted string

2011-12-12 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 04:28:49PM +0800, Yang Chengwei wrote: > On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 01:42:16PM +0800, Peng Yu wrote: > > I'm wondering if I already have a string variable, is there a bash > > native to do tilde expansion on it. > > > > var='~/..' > > cd $var#how to change this line? It sound

Re: FIFO silently ignored on . ( `source´ ) command

2011-12-12 Thread Chet Ramey
On 12/12/11 7:54 AM, Timothy Madden wrote: > I have > GNU bash, version 3.2.25(1)-release (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) on an > up-to-date CentOS 5.7 (Final) x64, > and > GNU bash, version 4.1.10(4)-release (i686-pc-cygwin) on Windows 7 x64 SP1. > > In both OSes I noted that `source´ built-in

Re: FIFO silently ignored on . ( `source´ ) command

2011-12-12 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 09:05:09AM -0500, Chet Ramey wrote: > On 12/12/11 7:54 AM, Timothy Madden wrote: > > [root@appserver2 ~]# mkfifo /tmp/myfifo > > [root@appserver2 ~]# echo ls -l >/tmp/myfifo & > > [2] 23771 > > [root@appserver2 ~]# source /tmp/myfifo# no `ls´ output here... > This i

Re: FIFO silently ignored on . ( `source´ ) command

2011-12-12 Thread Timothy Madden
On 12.12.2011 16:05, Chet Ramey wrote: On 12/12/11 7:54 AM, Timothy Madden wrote: I have GNU bash, version 3.2.25(1)-release (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) on an up-to-date CentOS 5.7 (Final) x64, and GNU bash, version 4.1.10(4)-release (i686-pc-cygwin) on Windows 7 x64 SP1. In both OSes

Re: FIFO silently ignored on . ( `source´ ) command

2011-12-12 Thread Chet Ramey
On 12/12/11 9:24 AM, Timothy Madden wrote: > On 12.12.2011 16:05, Chet Ramey wrote: >> On 12/12/11 7:54 AM, Timothy Madden wrote: >> >>> I have >>> GNU bash, version 3.2.25(1)-release (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) on an >>> up-to-date CentOS 5.7 (Final) x64, >>> and >>> GNU bash, version 4.1.

Re: FIFO silently ignored on . ( `source´ ) command

2011-12-12 Thread Timothy Madden
On 12.12.2011 16:30, Chet Ramey wrote: On 12/12/11 9:24 AM, Timothy Madden wrote: On 12.12.2011 16:05, Chet Ramey wrote: On 12/12/11 7:54 AM, Timothy Madden wrote: I have GNU bash, version 3.2.25(1)-release (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) on an up-to-date CentOS 5.7 (Final) x64, and GNU

Re: help-b...@gnu.org mailing list

2011-12-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Timothy Madden wrote: > Is the 'htlp-gnu-ut...@gnu.org' list on the help-bash info page > meant to be 'help-gnu-ut...@gnu.org' (note 'help' instead of 'htlp' > in the list name) ? > Can the list info on the web be updated ? Thanks for reporting that error. Fixed now. Bob