Following symlinks in globstar

2013-08-01 Thread Chris Down
As we're probably all aware, `globstar' follows symlinks when doing recursive traversal. Is it possible to, at some future version, have an option that enables/disables (I guess enables by default for backwards compatibility) following symlinks? This can be quite irritating when trying to traverse

ldapscripts unusable from within a 'while read line' loop

2013-08-01 Thread Lakshminarasimhan Srinivasan
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_VEND$ uname output: Linux win7082 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1

Re: ldapscripts unusable from within a 'while read line' loop

2013-08-01 Thread Lakshminarasimhan Srinivasan
On 08/01/2013 04:09 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 09:37:38AM +0200, Lakshminarasimhan Srinivasan wrote: ldapscripts do not work from inside a "while read line" loop. The exact same scripts were working fine until the last upgrade -

Re: Misleading phrasing about $! in documentation

2013-08-01 Thread Chet Ramey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 7/31/13 5:17 AM, Chris Down wrote: > I think our documentation on $! is a little misleading. `man bash' states: > > Special Parameters > The shell treats several parameters specially. These parameters may > only > be referenced

Re: Misleading phrasing about $! in documentation

2013-08-01 Thread Chris Down
On 2013-08-01 11:37, Chet Ramey wrote: > How about the command (or job) most recently placed in the background. That works for me. I'd be more inclined to use "job" since it avoids confusion about what happens when backgrounding a pipeline. Thanks. pgp2RdgUre66e.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: no apostrophe allowed in comment

2013-08-01 Thread Chet Ramey
On 7/30/13 7:04 PM, Curtis Doty wrote: > The above works. Whereas the below fails. > > #! /bin/bash -ex > # > > tee >( > # ain't this nifty > echo hi there > ) > > It burps thusly: > > ./foo.sh: line 7: bad substitution: no closing `)' in >( > # ain't this nifty > echo

Re: ldapscripts unusable from within a 'while read line' loop

2013-08-01 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 09:37:38AM +0200, Lakshminarasimhan Srinivasan wrote: > ldapscripts do not work from inside a "while read line" loop. > The exact same scripts were working fine until the last upgrade > - > #!/bin/bash > echo "Testing

Re: ldapscripts unusable from within a 'while read line' loop

2013-08-01 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
On Thu, 1 Aug 2013, Lakshminarasimhan Srinivasan wrote: ... Description: ldapscripts do not work from inside a "while read line" loop. The exact same scripts were working fine until the last upgrade Repeat-By: Prerequisite: ldapscripts installed. Open a new bash script and type in the f