I've been making some tentative patches to the `devel` branch, and since I
have a fairly large bashrc, when I compile Bash with maximal debugging
support, its startup is ... underwhelmingly slothful.
So I decided to build it with profiling enabled, and see if I'd done
something to ruin its perform
Steffen Nurpmeso wrote in
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|Robert Elz wrote in
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||Date:Fri, 23 Aug 2024 23:47:06 +0200
||From:Steffen Nurpmeso
||Message-ID: <20240823214706.oskn9OEF@steffen%sdaoden.eu>
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Emanuele Torre wrote in
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|On Sat, Aug 24, 2024 at 02:15:48AM +0200, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
|> Sorry but i really have to come again, i do not understand what is
|> going on, and *i* think shell is at fault.
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|No. It is working correctly.
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|> This:
|>
|> a() {
|> echo $#,1=$1,2
Greg Wooledge wrote in
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|On Sat, Aug 24, 2024 at 02:15:48 +0200, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
|> a() {
|> echo $#,1=$1,2=$2,"$*",$*,
|>}
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|You didn't read a word I said, did you
I recognize that i did not get your email even though i was in Cc:.
|*Sigh.*
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--steffen
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|De
Robert Elz wrote in
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|Date:Fri, 23 Aug 2024 23:47:06 +0200
|From:Steffen Nurpmeso
|Message-ID: <20240823214706.oskn9OEF@steffen%sdaoden.eu>
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|| So IFS whitespace only if part of $IFS.
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|That is the definition of IFS whi
On Sat, Aug 24, 2024, at 10:08 PM, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
> One hopefully last thing in this regard for me,
>
> c() { echo "$# 1<$1> 2<$2> 3<$3> *<$*> @<$@>"; }
This easily obfuscates the structure of the "$@" expansion. You'd
be better off with something like this, which prints each positiona
This seemed to happen over and over and only during "make install".
So I went for a simple config just to get something.
Config was trivial :
$ ../bash-5.2.32/configure --prefix=/opt/bw \
--enable-minimal-config --enable-history --enable-job-control \
--enable-multibyte --enable-readline \
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On Sat, Aug 24, 2024, at 11:49 PM, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
> Correct. Since you're using $* unquoted in a context where field
> splitting is performed, the shell does not expand it to a single
> field.
That is, unless there's a single positional parameter that is not
further split.
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