"help echo" forgets about "\u"

2018-12-07 Thread Egmont Koblinger
Hi, With 4.4 as well as the 20181205 snapshot: the output of "help echo" doesn't mention the escape characters "\u" and "\U". (They are mentioned in the manual page.) cheers, egmont

[minor] for/select parsing inconsistency

2018-12-07 Thread Martijn Dekker
There is a minor inconsistency in grammatical parsing between 'for' and 'select' loops. Since 'select' is basically a glorified 'for', it seems to me that they should parse the same way. $ bash -c 'for x in; do :; done' $ bash -c 'select x in; do :; done' bash: -c: line 0: syntax error near une

Re: "help echo" forgets about "\u"

2018-12-07 Thread Chet Ramey
On 12/7/18 5:27 AM, Egmont Koblinger wrote: > Hi, > > With 4.4 as well as the 20181205 snapshot: the output of "help echo" > doesn't mention the escape characters "\u" and "\U". (They are > mentioned in the manual page.) Thanks, I'll add something. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to le