I was trying to reload the bash history file which changed by another
bash session with the following commands, but it wouldn't work, please
help me, why?
```
new_history=$(history -a /dev/stdout)
history -c
history -r
echo "$new_history" | history -r /dev/stdin
```
On 8/16/12 9:17 AM, 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) wrote:
> I was trying to reload the bash history file which changed by another
> bash session with the following commands, but it wouldn't work, please
> help me, why?
>
> ```
> new_history=$(history -a /dev/stdout)
> history -c
> history -r
> echo "$new_his
2012/8/17 Chet Ramey :
> On 8/16/12 9:17 AM, 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) wrote:
>> I was trying to reload the bash history file which changed by another
>> bash session with the following commands, but it wouldn't work, please
>> help me, why?
>>
>> ```
>> new_history=$(history -a /dev/stdout)
>> history -
On 8/16/12 10:11 PM, 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) wrote:
> 2012/8/17 Chet Ramey :
>> On 8/16/12 9:17 AM, 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) wrote:
>>> I was trying to reload the bash history file which changed by another
>>> bash session with the following commands, but it wouldn't work, please
>>> help me, why?
>>>
>>> `
Hi,
I first noticed this in a shell script under mingw but tested it in bash
under Linux and it has the same behaviour.
some_var=# What I thought was a comment.
The '#' is eaten by the variable assignment so that some_var gets a null
value and the rest of the line is not treated like a com
On Thursday 16 August 2012 20:36:45 Keith Clifford wrote:
> some_var=# What I thought was a comment.
>
> The '#' is eaten by the variable assignment so that some_var gets a null
> value and the rest of the line is not treated like a command.
this is correct (if sometimes confusing to people) beha
On 08/16/2012 06:36 PM, Keith Clifford wrote:
>
> some_var=# What I thought was a comment.
^
Not the first byte of a word.
# starts a comment only when it is the first byte of a word.
You can write:
some_var= #Now this is a comment, since there is space between = and #
if you meant
2012/8/17 Chet Ramey :
> On 8/16/12 10:11 PM, 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) wrote:
>> 2012/8/17 Chet Ramey :
>>> On 8/16/12 9:17 AM, 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) wrote:
I was trying to reload the bash history file which changed by another
bash session with the following commands, but it wouldn't work, pleas
