On 7/26/23 10:21 PM, Zachary Santer wrote:
However, the man page for bash 5.2 only says the following about xpg_echo,
in the section about shopt:
"If set, the echo builtin expands backslash-escape sequences by default."
It makes no mention of disabling option processing.
Similarly, in the des
On Thu, 27 Jul 2023, 18:31 Denys Vlasenko, wrote:
> Try these two commands:
>
> $ echo "Date: `date #comment`"
> Date: Thu Jul 27 10:28:13 CEST 2023
>
> $ echo "Date: $(date #comment)"
> > )"
> Date: Thu Jul 27 10:27:58 CEST 2023
>
>
> As you see, #comment is handled differently in `` and $().
>
The output of `compopt' in a running completion function is a command where
the last word is usually the command for which the compspec was defined.
However, if the current compspec was found by using the basename of the
command word, or by invoking default completion, the output will use the
type
ve.
I'm attaching a straw man diff to the bash(1) page. If Chet likes it,
I'm happy to prepare one against the bash devel branch.
Applying the patch without any other changes to bash.1 results in
$ groff -Tascii -P -c -I/usr/local/src/bash/bash-20230728/doc -man
/usr/local/src/bash
Hi Chet,
At 2023-07-28T15:15:48-0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
> Applying the patch without any other changes to bash.1 results in
>
> $ groff -Tascii -P -c -I/usr/local/src/bash/bash-20230728/doc -man
> /usr/local/src/bash/bash-20230728/doc/bash.1 > bash.0
> troff: /usr/local/src/
