On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 6:48 AM Zachary Santer wrote:
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> The ( ) within the parameter expansion would be roughly analogous to
> the right hand side of a compound assignment statement for an indexed
> array. The values found therein would be taken as the indices of array
> elements or characters
On Fri, Jun 28, 2024 at 08:50:50 -0400, Zachary Santer wrote:
> Is "${array[@]( "${indeces[@]}" )}" ugly? Does that matter? It seems
> like a good way to write what's happening. I still have to look up
> some of the less-commonly-used parameter expansions every time I use
> them. I think people wou
On 6/24/24 10:21 AM, ama bamo wrote:
To address these issues, I propose the introduction of a new option,
failfast, which would immediately terminate the pipeline if any command in
the pipeline fails. This would streamline error handling and provide more
predictable script execution, aligning wi
On Fri, Jun 28, 2024 at 9:11 AM Greg Wooledge wrote:
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> I'm still wondering when you'd ever use this in a shell script.
In my case, I've got a couple of things:
(1)
One script has an array of names for named pipes. It might only need
two of the six for a given invocation, so why create all six
Was "feature suggestion: ability to expand a set of elements of an
array or characters of a scalar, given their indices"
On Fri, Jun 28, 2024 at 5:29 PM Zachary Santer wrote:
> ( 2 )
> A script that I've written more recently generates some arrays
> describing everything it needs to do before it
