I wrote:
> Description:
> The value of $? after starting a backgrounded command is inconsistent:
> $? is unchanged after starting a sufficiently complex command, but
> after starting a simpler command it is set to 0.
> From: Chet Ramey
> Thanks for the report. The exit status of any asynchronous
No bug here, but I naively expected the pattern substitution expansion
to work on array keys as well as values, e.g.:
$ declare -A h
$ h[foo]=x h[bar]=y
$ # show keys and values:
$ printf "\t<%s>\n" "${!h[@]}" "${h[@]}"
$ # try to pad keys an
On 12/14/13, 2:08 PM, dethrop...@web.de wrote:
>I thought the value was only 0 if the fork/spawn was succesful.
Sure, of course. (Posix does not document any other return value, btw.)
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