On 03/07/2020 10:39 pm, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
On Jul 3, 2020, at 2:00 PM, Chris Elvidge wrote:
However 'N=0; echo $((!$N))' gives an error at the bash prompt.
'echo $[!$N]' echo's 1 as expected.
My question - is $[...] actually obsolete?
It might tell you something that $[...] is not
On 03/07/2020 11:16 pm, Eli Schwartz wrote:
On 7/3/20 2:00 PM, Chris Elvidge wrote:
I've used 'return $((!$#))' and 'return $[!$#]' to return an error if no
parameters given to function.
Tested in a bash script 'exit $((!$#)) / $[!$#]' - both work.
'echo $((!$#)) / $[!$#]' - both echo 1 when
On 04/07/2020 04.39, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
> It might tell you something that $[...] is not even mentioned in
> the man page for bash 3.2.57, which is decidedly not the current
> version.
About that, is it for sure that $[] is going to be obsoleted/removed in
the future? I happened to use it r
4 Temmuz 2020 Cumartesi tarihinde pepa65 yazdı:
> On 04/07/2020 04.39, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
> > It might tell you something that $[...] is not even mentioned in
> > the man page for bash 3.2.57, which is decidedly not the current
> > version.
>
> About that, is it for sure that $[] is going
On 03/07/2020 10:39 pm, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
On Jul 3, 2020, at 2:00 PM, Chris Elvidge wrote:
However 'N=0; echo $((!$N))' gives an error at the bash prompt.
'echo $[!$N]' echo's 1 as expected.
My question - is $[...] actually obsolete?
It might tell you something that $[...] is not eve
On 03/07/2020 11:16 pm, Eli Schwartz wrote:
On 7/3/20 2:00 PM, Chris Elvidge wrote:
I've used 'return $((!$#))' and 'return $[!$#]' to return an error if no
parameters given to function.
Tested in a bash script 'exit $((!$#)) / $[!$#]' - both work.
'echo $((!$#)) / $[!$#]' - both echo 1 when
> On Jul 4, 2020, at 8:12 AM, pepa65 wrote:
>
> On 04/07/2020 04.39, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
>> It might tell you something that $[...] is not even mentioned in
>> the man page for bash 3.2.57, which is decidedly not the current
>> version.
>
> About that, is it for sure that $[] is going to b
Hi Lawrence:
On Fri 7/3/20 14:03 -0400 =?utf-8?Q?Lawrence_Vel=C3=A1zquez?= wrote:
>What's wrong with `foo | tee /dev/stderr | bar`?
Perfect!
This morning I had thought of
foo | tee >(cat >&2) | bar
but your soln is simplier. I assume /dev/stderr is on non linux UNIX
also.
--
thanks-you!,
On 7/4/20 7:54 AM, Chris Elvidge wrote:
> On 03/07/2020 11:16 pm, Eli Schwartz wrote:
>> On 7/3/20 2:00 PM, Chris Elvidge wrote:
>>> I've used 'return $((!$#))' and 'return $[!$#]' to return an error if no
>>> parameters given to function.
>>>
>>> Tested in a bash script 'exit $((!$#)) / $[!$#]' -
