Re: bash 3.2 vs 3.0

2012-01-07 Thread Allodoxaphobia
On Thu, 5 Jan 2012 10:12:34 +, Dave wrote: > > Recently upgraded to 3.2 That's *not* an upgrade. That's merely a 'change' in obsolescence.

Re: protection against accidental massive pastes into the command line

2012-04-26 Thread Allodoxaphobia
On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 04:18:21 +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > This would also save on later having to clean the massive blob out of > the history list. And, the Murphy's Law case(s) where one of the pasted lines contains a 'legitimate' linux command... Been there -- got a T-shirt. Jonesy

Re: Need help for bash function return value

2012-10-12 Thread Allodoxaphobia
On Thu, 11 Oct 2012 20:01:40 -0700 (PDT), Tinni wrote: > > I am very new to the shell scripting.. Need some pointers for getting > the return value in shell scripting. comp.unix.shell

Re: Replacing addresses

2013-11-28 Thread Allodoxaphobia
On Thu, 28 Nov 2013 09:09:28 -0600, Chris Down wrote: > On 2013-11-28 08:23:01 -0400, Peter Cordes wrote: >> Oh, also, the online bug-bash archive has a bad habbit of replacing >> code with address@hidden. There was a whole thread about setting >> PS1=whatever that is now a complete mystery to no

Re: Fishing for suggestions.

2009-02-14 Thread Allodoxaphobia
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:43:48 -0800 (PST), Joe Murray99 wrote: > > I hope I am asking this in the correct place. comp.unix.shell

Re: TIMEOUT

2009-04-04 Thread Allodoxaphobia
On Sat, 4 Apr 2009 08:37:32 -0300, Sergio Charpinel Jr. wrote: > Hi, > I'm in this mailing list, and I dont know if I am in the right place. If it > doesnt, tell me. comp.unix.shell I know, it's not very intuitive... Jonesy -- Marvin L Jones| jonz | W3DHJ | linu

Re: "Sed" Question

2009-10-17 Thread Allodoxaphobia
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:05:09 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:24:30PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: >> Pierre Gaston wrote: >> > Please consider asking in a sed mailing list like: >> > http://sed.sourceforge.net/#mailing >> > or maybe in the usenet group comp.unix.shell >> >> I

Re: operators available in bash versions

2009-11-30 Thread Allodoxaphobia
(Didn't have the OP on the server to followup to. SRI) > On 30 Nov 2009, at 12:12, Gerard wrote: >> >> I apologize for asking what is probably a dumb question, but where can >> I find a definitive listing of what features are available in each >> version of Bash. >> >> For example, I only have

Re: Help with script.

2010-05-19 Thread Allodoxaphobia
On Tue, 18 May 2010 10:08:54 -0700 (PDT), Afflictedd2 wrote: > > I'm tryin to build a script > > Any help appreciated. comp.unix.shell

Regular Expression matching operation =~

2019-09-22 Thread Allodoxaphobia
In moving a bash ver. 4.3.48 (Ubuntu) program to a bash ver. 5.0.11 (FreeBSD) environment I encountered either a bug, a quirk, or an undocumented feature. I was using a null regexp as a "match for anything" case when an optional command line parameter (a test pattern) was omitted. I boiled down

Re: Regular Expression matching operation =~

2019-09-23 Thread Allodoxaphobia
On Mon, 23 Sep 2019 09:21:44 -0400, Chet Ramey wrote: > On 9/22/19 5:44 PM, Allodoxaphobia wrote: > >> In moving a bash ver. 4.3.48 (Ubuntu) program to a bash ver. 5.0.11 >> (FreeBSD) environment I encountered either a bug, a quirk, or >> an undocumented feature. > >

Re: Important request, participation in software development study

2020-02-04 Thread Allodoxaphobia
On Tue, 4 Feb 2020 11:45:45 -0500 (COT), ivandarioarr...@gmail.com wrote: > Dear Engineers, > > When I write this message, I think I am writing to the best software > developers in the world, or to those who are in the process of being > one. It will be interesting to see what other ng's this po

Re: Are there any plans for more readable, modern syntaxes for If statements?

2020-03-26 Thread Allodoxaphobia
On Thu, 26 Mar 2020 19:05:58 +0200, Vaidas BoQsc wrote: > I keep on wondering why these shells can't come up with something better > than improving previous shell syntax by little by only providing poor > better alternatives. > I somehow think there is a need to rethink shells from scratch to make

Bash --version issue

2014-09-25 Thread Allodoxaphobia
Earlier today I performed the `bash` security upgrade on my | [userid~]uname -rs | FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE-p9 machine. I thought to check the version level of `bash` to see what I now have: | [userid~]man bash | : | : | --version | Show version information for this instance of ba

Re: Bash --version issue

2014-09-25 Thread Allodoxaphobia
On Thu, 25 Sep 2014 23:04:46 -0400, Chet Ramey wrote: > On 9/25/14, 9:41 PM, Allodoxaphobia wrote: >> Earlier today I performed the `bash` security upgrade on my >> | [userid~]uname -rs >> | FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE-p9 >> machine. I thought to check the version level of

Re: Bash --version issue

2014-09-26 Thread Allodoxaphobia
On 26 Sep 2014 03:13:57 GMT, Allodoxaphobia wrote: > On Thu, 25 Sep 2014 23:04:46 -0400, Chet Ramey wrote: >> On 9/25/14, 9:41 PM, Allodoxaphobia wrote: >>> Earlier today I performed the `bash` security upgrade on my >>> | [userid~]uname -rs >>> | FreeBSD 10.

Re: Bash --version issue

2014-09-26 Thread Allodoxaphobia
On Fri, 26 Sep 2014 10:25:32 -0400, Chet Ramey wrote: > On 9/26/14, 10:15 AM, Allodoxaphobia wrote: > >> There was another bash upgrade in the FreeBSD ports this A.M. >> Thinking it might resolve my bash --version problem, I applied it. >> >> sigh... >> >

Re: How to deal with errors in <()?

2015-03-09 Thread Allodoxaphobia
On Sun, 8 Mar 2015 22:05:29 +, Stephane Chazelas wrote: > 2015-03-07 18:01:18 -0600, Eduardo A. Bustamante López: >> > But I am wondering if there is a walkaround to deal with errors in >> > <(). The ideal behavior should be that if there is a error in <(), >> > then we should not consider comm

Re: Incomplete 'command not found' error message if command name contains spaces

2015-04-01 Thread Allodoxaphobia
On Tue, 31 Mar 2015 15:39:13 -0500, John McKown wrote: > Hum, on my system, I get the message you are expecting. Transcript: <-snip-> And, here... This is puzzling. On an older Ubuntu 10.04 system I still use (I know, I know...) I get _no_ response. But the return code appears correct: jonesy@n

Re: Only one Friday 13th coming in 2016

2015-12-21 Thread Allodoxaphobia
On Sun, 20 Dec 2015 23:59:32 -0500, Bill Duncan wrote: > We had 3 this year.. > > $ for y in {1950..2050} ; do for m in {1..12};do cal $m $y|awk > 'FNR==1{m=$0}/^ 1/{print m}';done;done| awk '{a[$2]=a[$2]" "$1}END{for (i in > a) print i,a[i]}'| sort| awk '{t=$1;$1="";a[$0]=a[$0]" "t}END{for (i in

Re: List out

2016-02-13 Thread Allodoxaphobia
On Sun, 14 Feb 2016 00:25:46 + (UTC), Val Krem wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a file (5000 rows and 65,000 columns). > > > 1. For each row I want find and count the number of missing variable > represented by (NA) and then print out. > > Sample data > > 1. fgh1 1 1 2 1 NA 2 2 > > 2. fgh2

Re: List out

2016-02-15 Thread Allodoxaphobia
On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 08:19:37 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 03:02:58AM +0000, Allodoxaphobia wrote: >> err... u... What's your *bash bug* ??? > > I think what he meant to say is, "Questions of this type should be > sent to help-b...@gnu.org