Re: GNU bash, 3.00.15(1)-release, referenced cmd in cwd executes alternate cmd

es on either. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozde

Re: Quotes problem ?

t by running d2u on it. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] volunteer bash port maintainer for cygwin -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Co

Re: Function/alias recursion

ect you from yourself (or put differently, the halting problem is undecidable). - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~e

Re: Did I find a Bug in /bin/ls or in bash?

but is due to your choice of locale, and its choice of collating sequences. Try exporting LC_ALL=C to see the difference. > coreutils-6.4-10 > bash-3.1-55 Consider upgrading. coreutils is at 6.7, and bash at 3.2. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blak

Re: I can`t complete ./configure command

led on your HP. Did configure run to completion? If not, what is your real problem? - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake

Re: source(builtin) and read(2)

its in ssize_t. Again, if your ssize_t is smaller than 32 bits, your platform has other issues. Just because POSIX allows ssize_t to be as small as 16 bits doesn't mean many modern platforms do that. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake

Re: source(builtin) and read(2)

mitations before it is possible to exceed the SSIZE_MAX limitation. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast

Re: how does bash parse back-ticks, anyway?

you have to additionally escape $, `, ", \, and newline to account for the added level of "" parsing. It is this additional level of escaping which applies only to `` that makes "``" hard to parse, and which does not apply to $() parsing. And as the autoconf manual doc

Re: inconsistent output for cd

into account. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://en

Re: inconsistent output for cd

Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mo

readline vs. literal \1 and \2

ther than the current behavior of treating it as a synonym for PS1='\['? -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash

Re: strange expansion of <(cat p.main.{optional,extra})

ed, and there was no syntax error. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozi

Re: inconsistent output for cd

Eric Blake byu.net> writes: > > Curiously, under the same conditions on a Red Hat Linux box: > > Why didn't you say so in the first place? If this behavior only occurs on > cygwin, then it is a bug in either cygwin or the bash port of cygwin, and > you should have

Re: Bash-3.2 Official Patch 16

ru.edu/pub/bash/bash-3.2-patches but not ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bash/bash-3.2-patches, even though the corresponding readline patches are on both sites? - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version:

Re: Bash is broken

ctually, when quoted properly, it should be a numeric comparison, not a string comparison. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~eri

Re: bash for loop errorr

s now at 3.2, and has several new features and bug fixes above what 2.03 or even 3.0 had. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~eri

Re: bug in printf bash command

: 09: value not completely converted It is bash's printf which could be improved, so I'm forwarding this to the bug-bash list. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5

Re: deleting coma in a large number of files

e - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozi

Re: variables

As written, you are invoking toto.conf.sh independently, in its own shell environment. If you want toto.conf.sh to affect the current environment, you need to source it - look at the documentation for '.' (also known as 'source'). - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for f

Re: automate input

That's because the enter key is not $'\r', but $'\n' (or more simply, a blank line inside your heredoc). - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) C

Re: short-circuit test ... -a ...

re than 4 arguments (you had 7) is unspecified. So there is no compelling reason to change the current behavior. If you want short-circuiting, do this instead: x=; test "$x" != "" && test "$x" -le 60 - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as w

Re: Readline-5.2 Official Patch 7

s one ... bash32-025 has been present on the ftp sites since the 22nd. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg

Re: TAB strips wildcards

Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - h

Re: RFE: brace expansion sequences should do zero padding

are so rare that they are not worth the effort. > Do you agree? Perhaps rather than trying to improve bash {} expansion, you could use coreutils seq instead. For example, $ seq -f 'a/%03g' -007 003 a/-07 a/-06 a/-05 a/-04 a/-03 a/-02 a/-01 a/000 a/001 a/002 a/003 - -- Don't work

Re: builtin echo command redirection misbehaves in detached scripts when terminal is closed

I raised this very bug several months ago: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2007-04/msg00070.html where the cd builtin has the same issue. I also proposed several approaches for fixing the issue. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake

Re: Problems with redirection of output to files through shell scripts

, named after the stty option, that makes bash ignore all carriage returns on input, when enabled. Is there any interest in having that option on all platforms, rather than just Cygwin? If so, I will try to clean up the patch and post it here. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun

Re: -d option not working. . .?

words: history and POSIX. It's been done that way for more than 20 years, so it was standardized that way. Changing it would break too many existing scripts. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE---

Re: bash should retry a fork() returning EAGAIN

t; > Might be worth checking with the Cygwin folks, but this sounds like it > would be useful in Cygwin also. (IIRC, this problem is why I dropped SUA > for Cygwin in the first place, i.e. in SUA the problem was much worse.) > > Eric, are you watching this? :-) It does look like

Re: Bash Prompt location

//www.termsys.demon.co.uk/vtansi.htm, PS1='\[\e[20;5H\]> ' will output "> " at row 20 line 5, rather than the current position. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v

Re: Bash with Dos File problem

purious \r in your files. That said, however, you may want to upgrade, since cygwin now ships with bash 3.2.25. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key

Re: using NUL in scripts

quot;new-file" will be exactly "binary-file" if all NUL bytes are stripped out POSIX is silent on the matter. zsh preserves NUL in command substitution, bash strips them out. Perhaps it is worth raising the issue with the Austin group for clarification. - -- Don't work too

Re: CDPATH bug

acter, and the operand." - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericbla

Re: error with ' in command substitution

o 3.2). - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: how could I execute a set of script in a directoy tree?

ut here, you want it to be an argument to find. Read the find documentation for more about why -execdir requires a literal ; to end the sequence. You could also have quoted it as '\' or "\\", but that is more typing. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Re: echo(1) non-conformant (processing -e and -E)

ng printf(1) instead of echo(1). - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla

Re: nonconformant behavior for printf(1) (you cannot interpret - as an option char)

guments, as in: $ printf -- ---%s---\\n test - ---test--- If your non-builtin system printf behaves differently, that is a bug in your system printf. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuP

Re: nonconformant behavior for printf(1) (you cannot interpret - as an option char)

o print with a format string starting with a hyphen, because the -- is required to be interpreted as the end of options, and not as the format string. The format string is not an option, so it is the first word after the end-of-options designator, or ---%s---\\n. - -- Don't work too hard, ma

Re: nonconformant behavior for printf(1) (you cannot interpret - as an option char)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Rich Felker on 11/26/2007 10:02 PM: > On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 09:54:52PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Please keep replies on the list,

Re: nonconformant behavior for printf(1) (you cannot interpret - as an option char)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 11/26/2007 10:09 PM: >> Again, go read POSIX and if you're still unclear file a RFI. But it's >> very clear and bash is incorrect in this respect. > > I'm on the Austin group, and feel quite

Re: Tilde expandion for values of long options

ning behind this is that ~ already represents a single path name, so it should not be further expanded. However, bash 3.2 does not obey this rule (it avoids field splitting, but mistakenly performs pathname expansion if $HOME contains glob characters). - -- Don't work too hard, make some time

Re: Dubious parse in builtin 'test' command

austin/interps/uploads/40/10043/AI-107.txt Therefore, I see no bug in bash, even though it differs from coreutils in its interpretation of 'test ! -a file'. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE--

Re: bash-shipped getcwd() replacement does not work on interix.

placement for getcwd, to see how it handles the problem: http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=blob;f=lib/getcwd.c - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Commen

Re: bash incompatible with sh,maybe this is a bug

ened to pick an example that POSIX doesn't nail down, and which is therefore unportable and should not be used. Not to mention that [ $test1 -a $test2 ] is an XSI extension, so your shell need not support it to begin with. -- Eric Blake

Re: stdio buffer flushing on redirection

purge, with mode chosen correctly based on whether the underlying stream is in append mode, but that is equally unportable to other platforms. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4

Re: Is there a Windows native port of Bash or Bourne Shell(no cygwin)?

esn't work on vista yet, then they would probably welcome your help. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblak

Re: bash 2.05b.0(1)-release on Debian Sarge: [A-Z]* expands as [A-Za-z]* :-(

current locale, which does a collation sort. You aren't doing [A-Za-z], but [AaBb...Z], because your current locale prefers case-insensitive collation. Change your locale (try LC_COLLATE=C or LC_ALL=C) to see the difference. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Re: testsuite -C dir

and `source' builtins do not search the current directory ~ for the filename argument if it is not found by searching `PATH'. It looks like we've discovered a bash bug. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -B

Re: problems substituting 'jobs' in a bash script

ading this link, especially under Application Usage http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/jobs.html - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Pub

Re: error in expression evaluation

n would be more portable as: [ a != b ] && [ x'(' != x, ] | Fix: | Workaround: don't use a compound expression, Yes - that is the only portable way to use [. | use a second if-statement within | the first if-statement. Or use && between two invocations of test. -

Re: SEGV on unbounded recursion

or making stack overflow detection result in nicer output than a crash. http://www.gnu.org/software/libsigsegv/ - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key

Re: style of assignment to variable changes command selection

- -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http:/

Re: style of assignment to variable changes command selection

er the section RESERVED WORDS. Also, 'help time' gives evidence that it is special to bash (as 'help' is the bash builtin that reports about both reserved words and builtins). | | | Doug McIlroy | (Editor of Unix manuals, editions 7-10) | - -- Don't work too hard

Fwd: Problem with bash completion

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This was originally reported on the cygwin lists; it is still present in stock bash 3.2.33. - - From: David Rothenberger Subject: Problem with bash completion Sometimes bash gets confused and starts adding a slash at the end of files when I do

Re: cp and mv commands (copying/moving only if file does not exist, regardless of the time stamps, for use in a automatic script)

ompt are pretty hairy). ~ At any rate, I suggest looking into rsync, which can do exactly what you want and more. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key

Re: shorthand attempt at 'basename file .ext'

print '-a', not '--'. Also, on platforms where // is special (such as cygwin), 'basename //' and 'basename // /' should print '//', not '/', to match the behavior of the basename program on those platforms. -- Eric Blake

Re: shorthand attempt at 'basename file .ext'

if you choose to preserve "//" even though it is not special, then you skip steps 3-6, so you don't do any suffix stripping from step 6, and the result is "//". Either way, "basename // /" doesn't do any suffix stripping (for that matter, NO suffix that c

Re: problems with output redirection

s that start with whitespace, to guarantee that the whitespace is preserved. A GnuPG-aware client is supposed to strip the ~. ~ However, in my opinion, not one of the smartest actions of Enigmail. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAI

Re: Bash unexpected directory prompting

en bash is used to | execute scripts and it is not in an interactive mode. What is CDPATH set to? - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast

Re: Bash unexpected directory prompting

un as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkgA694ACgkQ84KuGfSFAYCsvwCfQDfGznAc92tuDo

Re: Bash messes up spaces in command line agruments.

lly want something like: ~ echo "$index |$(eval echo \"\${$index}\")|" Or more efficiently: ~ eval 'echo "$index |$'"$index"'|"' - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: builtin printf not printing unicode characters?

rg/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2008-05/msg00067.html - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using Gnu

Re: A wonderful idea about shell!

having to cycle through every single recent command with the 'up' and 'down' arrows. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comc

Re: Bash enhancement request

x27;t work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozde

Re: Operator || disables set -e in subshells: Bug or feature?

ubshell is exempt. If you need more clarification, I would ask on the Austin Group mailing list if this ambiguity was intended. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Com

heredoc in command subst bug?

I'm not sure whether this is a bug in POSIX or in bash, but I noticed the following with bash-3.2.39. $ bash -c 'foo=$(cat

Re: bash using incorrect block size with limits

this, I think this is an appropriate place to make the code conditional on whether bash is emulating posix rather than hard-coded. People just don't think conveniently in terms of the older 512b block sizes. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake

Re: top level configure from autoconf 2.59 looses --quiet

that you wouldn't have to rerun autoconf; but as configure is a generated file, the cygwin patch is much smaller by excluding it from the diff. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] volunteer maintainer of cygwin port of bash

Re: [POSIX conformance] "." looks for file in the current directory

echo $foo $bar hello world - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozi

Re: time command

me' to see this). - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment:

Re: some variable level issues

nce, with my > benchmarks, > it is hundreds of times slower than ".=" in perl. Thoughts? It's much faster than the alternative of "=". -- Eric Blake

Re: SHELL Bash variable

L'. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozill

Re: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" strings in the web archive

the same message at: http://www.nabble.com/forum/Permalink.jtp?root=18519745&post=18527669&page=y - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.

Re: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" strings in the web archive

t I agree hands down that gmane's posting ability is better than nabble's. Still, I wish there were a web posting site that allowed cross-posting, even if only to a thread that were already cross-posted. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake

Re: bash: request for a way to return variables to the parent of a subshell

eally isn't a way to pass arbitrary information from a child process back to the parent. But maybe the 'source' builtin is what you are looking for, to execute a script in the same context rather than forking off a child. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Re: timeout

You may be interested to know that the next coreutils release (post 6.12, currently slated to be named coreutils 7.0) will include a timeout command. You can search the bug-coreutils archives for links to snapshots that already have this command available to replace the version dropped in your distro. -- Eric Blake

Re: CDPATH reports to stdout and even non-interactively

unt. And in general, it is a bad idea to export CDPATH. Using it in interactive shells as a non-environment shell variable is fine, but exporting it affects non-interactive shells. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BE

Re: Maximum limit of pipes in a single command ?

ced parser limit. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://e

Re: lost output from asynchronous lists

x27;s the ":;" for? A workaround to the bash 3.2 bug, fixed in bash32-030, where failure to use :; prior to a compound command (except for a subshell) meant that bash incorrectly returns status 0 if redirection fails. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time

Re: lost output from asynchronous lists

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 10/29/2008 6:22 AM: >>> - ( :; $1 ) >"$at_stdout" 2>"$at_stderr" >>> + : >"$at_stderr" >>> + ( :; $1 ) >>"$at_stdout" 2>>"$

PIPESTATUS not altered by $(())

ons where the latter is not properly updated. In the example below, a failed arithmetic substitution sets $? but not $PIPESTATUS. Repeat-By: $ PS1=' ${PIPESTATUS[*]} \$ ' 0 $ echo $? 0 0 $ echo $((+)) bash: +: syntax error: operand expected (error token is "+")

case insensitive completion and _

(just type a, -, ). Any chance readline 6.0 can offer a configuration parameter for this ability? - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.c

readline filename completion and dirent.d_type

used to avoid a large number of stat calls, giving faster completion performance (particularly on filesystems where stat is slow). Any thoughts on whether this sounds worthwhile, or what the new API names should look like? -- Eric Blake

Re: problem with echoing script variable to gpg

riables work. You want: digest=$( echo -n "$1" | gpg --print-md sha1 ) echo "$digest" - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comc

Re: wrong lineno inside trap?

#Special-Shell-Variables and this update to the documentation source, detailing even more inconsistencies: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=autoconf.git;a=commitdiff;h=10d26aa - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -BEGIN P

Re: if, -n

y one argument ("-n"), and it is not empty, it is true. You meant to use quotes, to guarantee that there are two arguments, as in: if [ -n "$variable" ]; then echo true; fi - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -BE

Re: No tilde expansion right after a quotation

these two constructs: foo="`echo "a b"`" bar=`echo "a b"` only the setting of bar is guaranteed to parse correctly in all shells. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

Re: Help: Bash script that show you the last file created?

't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with

Re: No tilde expansion right after a quotation

"` >> >> only the setting of bar is guaranteed to parse correctly in all >> shells. > Eric, thanks for youy replay. If double quotes are not that portable, then > how am I suppose to assign the output from some command to a variable when > the output contains a space?

Re: bash-4.0 regression: negative return values

oken that > > $ f(){ return -1; }; f > -bash: return: -1: invalid option > return: usage: return [n] What about 'return -- -1'? - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1

Re: bash-4.0 regression: negative return values

same argument is worthwhile for exit/return. Although POSIX does not require support for any options, neither does it forbid it. Thus, making 'return -1' behave like 'return 255', as an extension, is still permitted, and in the interest of backwards-compatibility, is probabl

Re: cat.sh issue

er than printf %s\\n "$var"? You are correct: echo does not parse -- because of POSIX. And POSIX is also explicit that for portability, you are better off using printf than echo. http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/echo.html - -- Don't work too hard, make som

Re: Misleading syntax in manual

ur varints: 'in ;', 'in name... ;', ';', or blank. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake

Re: Misleading syntax in manual

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 4/8/2009 6:10 AM: > The corresponding link in POSIX 2008 is: > > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_18_09_04 > > although the expository listing in that section is

Re: Misleading syntax in manual

ail.tpl?CALLER=index.tpl&source=L&listname=austin-group-l&id=12056 - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Co

Re: how to pass arguments with space inside?

spaces' '*' "a'b'c'd" args= for arg do case $arg in *\'*) arg=${arg//\'/"'\\''"} ;; esac args+=" '$arg'" done eval for arg in "$args" \; do echo \"\$arg\"\; done And if you don't want to rely on the bash-specific ${name//pattern/repl} or +=, you can rewrite those with something more portable to other shells. -- Eric Blake

Re: Really minor bug. Curent working directory: "//"

ot;or to more > slashes") results in "/" as current working directory. Not a bug. POSIX allows // to be a different directory than /, and on some platforms, such as cygwin, this is actually the case. Therefore, bash is required to be careful of //. - -- Don't work

Re: Bash-4.0 Official Patch 23

I noticed that although ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/readline-6.0-patches/readline60-003 exists, the canonical ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/readline/readline-6.0-patches/* is missing. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -BEGIN PGP SI

Re: parallel several jobs in bash

lt;&6 fi exec 6<&- wait else # Run serially, avoid forks and other potential surprises. for at_group in $at_groups; do at_fn_group_prepare if cd "$at_group_dir" && at_fn_test $at_group &

Re: echo "-e" produces no outputs

> and some other inputs, all of which produced no outputs. Instead of using echo (which POSIX itself admits is fraught with portability problems), use printf: printf -- '-e\n' - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu

Re: bash 4: source does not search current dir

cified by POSIX: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#dot You can add . to your PATH (probably smarter at the end, not the beginning) if you want to find scripts without anchoring them with a leading './'. - -- Don't work too hard, make some tim

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