On 8/11/21 8:00 PM, Franklin, Jason wrote:
Chet:
My apologies in advance for not responding in thread. The bug-bash
archive interface doesn't expose the "Message-ID" header anywhere I can
find, and I am not a subscriber. I suppose I should become one. :)
I believe I'd rather have variables
On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 10:10:42AM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
> As long as you stick to things POSIX standardizes. Relevant here, the
> standard even includes a list of variables you should avoid using because
> various shells and applications use them.
Just out of curiosity, where is that? It's no
On 8/13/21 10:32 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 10:10:42AM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
As long as you stick to things POSIX standardizes. Relevant here, the
standard even includes a list of variables you should avoid using because
various shells and applications use them.
Just o
Le 12/08/2021 à 16:29, Chet Ramey a écrit :
On 8/11/21 6:35 PM, Jean-Jacques Brucker wrote:
Thank a lot Chet.
I still think it would have been more consistent to extend the $'...' syntax.
Why would it be more consistent to add translation to a quoting syntax that
didn't have it than to post-pr
On Fri, 2021-08-13 at 10:10 -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
> As long as you stick to things POSIX standardizes. Relevant here, the
> standard even includes a list of variables you should avoid using because
> various shells and applications use them.
GROUPS is not on this list that I can tell. It would
Le 13/08/2021 à 18:14, Jean-Jacques Brucker écrivait :
Le 12/08/2021 à 16:29, Chet Ramey a écrit :
On 8/11/21 6:35 PM, Jean-Jacques Brucker wrote:
Thank a lot Chet.
I still think it would have been more consistent to extend the $'...'
syntax.
Why would it be more consistent to add translation
On 8/13/21 12:14 PM, Jean-Jacques Brucker wrote:
I'm probably less familiar with the history of shells and bash than you (and
others on this mailing list), but it seems to me that:
First were the chains:
* '...' who did not expand anything
* "..." which expanded the syntaxes $VAR and the u
