Greetings,
In doing some research into ways to better improve the gentoo ebuild qa,
I ran across the fact that the official bash patches are provided as
-p0, context diffs.
I was hoping I could convince you to convert to -p1, unified diffs, such
as are produced by diff -u or git format-patch, for
In Bash, using "$@" in an assignment, (as in a="$@" ) concatenates the
positional parameters to single string, joined with spaces. Somewhat
similarly to what "$*" does, except that $* uses the first letter of
IFS, but $@ always uses a space.
However, I can't see this documented in the manual,
On 5/18/18 5:09 PM, Jorge Maldonado Ventura wrote:
>> After the string is decoded, it is expanded via parameter expansion,
> command substitution, arithmetic expansion, and quote removal, subject
> to the value of the |promptvars| shell option (see _Bash Builtins_).
>
> The documentation should po
On 5/19/18 3:40 PM, Ilkka Virta wrote:
> In Bash, using "$@" in an assignment, (as in a="$@" ) concatenates the
> positional parameters to single string, joined with spaces. Somewhat
> similarly to what "$*" does, except that $* uses the first letter of IFS,
> but $@ always uses a space.
The key
