typo in: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html

2017-12-19 Thread Howard Johnson
Hi, In section:     3.5.1 Brace Expansion The line,     "To avoid conflicts with parameter expansion, the string ‘${’ is not considered eligible for brace expansion." occurs twice.

Re: typo in: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html

2017-12-19 Thread Chet Ramey
On 12/19/17 12:23 PM, Howard Johnson wrote: > Hi, > > In section: >     3.5.1 Brace Expansion > > The line, >     "To avoid conflicts with parameter expansion, the string ‘${’ is not > considered eligible for brace expansion." > > occurs twice. Thanks for the catch. Chet -- ``The lyf so shor

Re: Bash default /etc/bash.bashrc overwrites PS1 even if SUDO_PS1 is set

2017-12-19 Thread Bob Proulx
Eric Engstrom wrote: > doh - thanks - didn't think of that, and that makes more sense. > > Nevermind then. In the /usr/share/doc/bash/README.Debian.gz file: 5. What is /etc/bash.bashrc? It doesn't seem to be documented. The Debian version of bash is compiled with a special option (-DSYS_B

Re: typo in: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html

2017-12-19 Thread Howard Johnson
Chet, BTW, After your reply, I was curious who case.edu was, but I'm seeing this (in both of my browsers): Is your main university server down? On 12/19/2017 09:08 AM, Chet Ramey wrote: On 12/19/17 12:23 PM, Howard Johnson wrote: Hi, In section:     3.5.1 Brace Expansion The line,