Documentation Update

2014-12-12 Thread David J. Haines
Hi all, When started interactively, bash sets the extglob shopt; however, that fact seems to have been overlooked in the manpage. The behavior of bash itself is great, but in the context of the manpage, it appears erroneous, as it indicates that use of 'shopt' is necessary for extglob to be enable

Re: Documentation Update

2014-12-12 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 09:59:50AM -0500, David J. Haines wrote: > When started interactively, bash sets the extglob shopt; however, that > fact seems to have been overlooked in the manpage. This is a compile-time setting. Your vendor probably turned this on. imadev:~$ bash-4.3 imadev:~$ shopt |

Re: Documentation Update

2014-12-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Greg Wooledge wrote: > David J. Haines wrote: > > When started interactively, bash sets the extglob shopt; however, that > > fact seems to have been overlooked in the manpage. > > This is a compile-time setting. Your vendor probably turned this on. > > imadev:~$ bash-4.3 > imadev:~$ shopt | grep

Re: Documentation Update

2014-12-12 Thread Dennis Williamson
On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Greg Wooledge wrote: > > David J. Haines wrote: > > > When started interactively, bash sets the extglob shopt; however, that > > > fact seems to have been overlooked in the manpage. > > > > This is a compile-time setting. Your vendor probably

Re: Documentation Update

2014-12-12 Thread Chet Ramey
On 12/12/14, 9:59 AM, David J. Haines wrote: > Hi all, > > When started interactively, bash sets the extglob shopt; however, that > fact seems to have been overlooked in the manpage. The behavior of bash > itself is great, but in the context of the manpage, it appears > erroneous, as it indicates

Re: Documentation Update

2014-12-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Dennis Williamson wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > I see a lot of hits in the bash_completion add-on files. Should we be > > looking at: > > > > $ grep -r "shopt -s extglob" /etc/bash* > > /etc/bash_completion.d/nmh:shopt -s extglob > > /etc/bash_completion.d/libreoffice.sh:test $g -eq

Re: Documentation Update

2014-12-12 Thread David J. Haines
On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 01:59:50PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Dennis Williamson wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > I see a lot of hits in the bash_completion add-on files. Should we be > > > looking at: > > > > > > $ grep -r "shopt -s extglob" /etc/bash* > > > /etc/bash_completion.d/nmh:sh