Re: Bash source repository

2011-05-29 Thread Ben Pfaff
d on the change that occurred. It is a waste of time to use "git mv" if some other way is easier. -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org

Re: Built-in printf Sits Awkwardly with UDP.

2011-07-21 Thread Ben Pfaff
ond after the last > write. Unfortunately, there's no such thing in stdio. That sounds like a bad design for a log file anyhow. Log entries should get flushed quickly, otherwise you lose the last few log entries before a segfault or signal and have fewer clues about the cause. -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org

Re: Parallelism a la make -j / GNU parallel

2012-05-05 Thread Ben Pfaff
Colin McEwan writes: > I frequently find myself these days writing shell scripts, to run on > multi-core machines, which could easily exploit lots of parallelism (eg. a > batch of a hundred independent simulations). > > The basic parallelism construct of '&' for async execution is highly > expres

words in COMPWORDS vs. words in COMPREPLY

2010-07-21 Thread Ben Pfaff
ue,...", and this seemingly odd behavior is making life difficult. Thanks, Ben. -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org

Re: Verbatim pasting

2010-08-10 Thread Ben Pfaff
Andre Majorel writes: > Binding printable ASCII characters to readline functions is > convenient but it can bite you when you paste text into a shell. This also bites me from time to time when I cut-and-paste a command from an editor window into a bash terminal window. If the line that I cut-an