Hi
It seems that the binding for Alt-Tab changed from dynamic-complate-history
to tab-insert around Bash 3.0.
The bashref.info file as found in Debian and the current version 3.0 Bash
source tarball on http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/ both still state the default
binding for dynamic-complete-his
In the SHELL GRAMMAR section of the bash man page, the [[ expression ]]
syntax is described:
When the == and != operators are used, the string to the right of the
operator is
considered a pattern and matched according to the rules described below
under Pattern Matching.
The P
Hi Chet
Thanks for your very prompt reply.
I understand that globbing is happening, but I don't understand why
deleting a parameter should occur with nullglob set if the parameter
matches but the word to delete doesn't. The bash behavior seems to make
this construct useful only for file name del
> I also noticed in the POSIX standard that quoting the word part should
> cause it to be literal and prevent globbing. If I try this in bash, I
> get the same result as in my original message, that is:
>
> $ shopt -s nullglob
> $ connectioninfo='${HOST%%".*"} ${USER}'
> $ echo $connectioninfo
>
On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 12:24 -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
> Michael Wardle wrote:
> > Hi Chet
> >
> > Thanks for your very prompt reply.
> >
> > I understand that globbing is happening, but I don't understand why
> > deleting a parameter should occur with n
I've come to a better understanding of how expansion occurs and now
realize that this is not a bug.
Thanks to Chet for his time in responding to my messages.
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