Re: History expansion is strangely re-enabled.

Pierre Gaston writes: > bash-4.0$ set +H;!((3)) > bash: !: event not found That command line was never executed because history expansion failed. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now fo

Re: 4.0 core dump from printf -v foo %s b

rminating NUL) if the buffer would be big enough. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."

Re: 4.0 core dump from printf -v foo %s b

Chet Ramey writes: > I try to write to the current (well, ten-year-old) standards. Nothing wrong with that. gnulib has a few macros to detect such problematic implementations that you could borrow from. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 5

Re: printf "%q" and $'...'

se read -r -d '' to get really unmangled input.) > but if I try to "output" $'\x00', I can't. $ printf "\x00\n" | cat -A ^@ Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."

Re: printf "%q" and $'...'

Antonio Macchi writes: > but, as you can see, it does not work only for two binary chars The argument space is not suitable for binary I/O. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for s

Re: printf "%q" and $'...'

Antonio Macchi writes: >> $ printf "\x00\n" | cat -A >> ^@ > > it works, so why... > > $ printf $'\x00' | cat -A > $ > > ... not? The answer is in the part you neglected to read. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key f

Re: Use of pipe in $(< filename | program) returns null

Bernd Eggink writes: > Am 28.11.2009 06:35, schrieb r...@saturn.syslang.net: >> >> Description: >> use of $(< filename | program) does not work. It either should or it >> should be properly documented. >> The problem also happens on bash4. >> >> Repeat-By: >> >> qq=$(< /etc/pass

Re: IFS handling and read

"Chris F.A. Johnson" writes: >This works with the output of commands, too: > > IFS=- read year month day <<. > $(date +%Y-%m-%d) > . The disadvantage is that the command is executed synchronously. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fi

Re: best way to test for empty dir?

Greg Wooledge writes: > It's just a positional-parameter variant of: > > files=("/tmp/emptydir"/*) > if [[ -e ${files[0]} ]] ... This will still fail if the first file happens to be a dangling symlink. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key f

Re: best way to test for empty dir?

"Matias A. Fonzo" writes: > A solution to check the broken symlink is: > > [ -e "foo" -o -L "foo" -a ! -e "foo" ] In which way is the last check not redundant? Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7

Re: best way to test for empty dir?

sider broken symlinks just >> like anything else. A broken symlink would be a bug in my code and I want to >> detect it ASAP. >> >> >> > Because, if the symlink is not broken, the regular file "exists" ( -e ). >> >> Please forget about corre

Re: best way to test for empty dir?

"Matias A. Fonzo" writes: > On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:37:36 +0100 > Andreas Schwab wrote: > >> "Matias A. Fonzo" writes: >> >> > On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:21:12 + >> > Marc Herbert wrote: >> > >> >> Matias A.

Re: Bash-4.1-rc1 available for FTP

What does that mean? TRACE: pid 17502: mark_dead_jobs_as_notified: ndeadproc (0) != js.c_reaped (14) Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."

Re: Bash-4.1-rc1 available for FTP

Chet Ramey writes: > On Dec 25, 2009, at 11:43 AM, Andreas Schwab > wrote: > >> What does that mean? >> > > TRACE: pid 17502: mark_dead_jobs_as_notified: ndeadproc (0) != js.c_reaped > (14) > > It's a debugging/informational message. ndeadproc is a coun

Re: $(pwd) != $(/bin/pwd)

and which is resolved > relative to your current working directory. > > $PWD is always an absolute pathname. There are two conditions: 1. absolute pathname and 2. to the current directory. The second one is violated. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."

Re: Error when script uses CRLF line endings w/ if stmt

Jan Schampera writes: > It's a character like 'A' or 'B'. 'A' and 'B' are letters, $'\r' is whitespace. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."

Re: [^/]+ vs. [^/]* - Regular Expression bug?

home', the second matches nothing. The only difference > is * vs. + AFAICT, both expressions should match 'home'. "[^/]*" matches the null string at the start of '/home/', and there is no reason for the matcher to try another match. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab

Re: Is there a special variable for the directory where the script is in?

s a pair of quotes (${link#*"$remove"}). Testcase: 'x[a]' -> 'y'. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."

Re: Possible Bug in BASH

the name `c'. Surely they behave differently. Alias substitution is a pure textual substution that changes the text to be parsed. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."

cmdhist creates unparsable history entries

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Re: [bash-bug] Can arithmetic evaluation trap more than just division by zero?

l2 > $2 = -1 > > which is strange. Not at all. Overflow invokes undefined behaviour. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."

Re: [bash-bug] Can arithmetic evaluation trap more than just division by zero?

Roman Rakus writes: > But why there is no overflow on 32bit system? Why do you think so? Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."

Re: How cd to a directory with special characters like environment\<\-?

t; > As long as we're being exhaustively thorough... > > ... or cd "$_" to reuse the last word of the previous command. > ... or cd !$to reuse the last word in csh-style history expansion. ... or cd M-. (type Meta-period) Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."

Re: declare -A a=b crashes bash

ease >> >> Description: >> Typing 'declare -A a=b' crashes bash with a segmentation fault. >> Repeat-By: >> Type 'declare -A a=b'. > >I can confirm that in 4.0, but it works in 4.1 Not really: $ declare -A a=b; unset a *** glibc detected *** /bin/bash: free(): invalid pointer: 0x10091644 *** Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."

Re: declare -A a=b crashes bash

Andreas Schwab writes: > $ declare -A a=b; unset a > *** glibc detected *** /bin/bash: free(): invalid pointer: 0x10091644 *** And the obvious patch: --- bash-4.1/builtins/declare.def.~1~ 2009-11-26 01:42:00.0 +0100 +++ bash-4.1/builtins/declare.def 2010-04-09

Re: Strange behavior of IFS?

y the $string was still splitted into words since > it's double quoted. Anyone can give a reasonable explanation? It's not "$string" that was split, but rather $i. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."

Re: Feature request: Can bash provide some mechanism for locking/unlocking?

"Clark J. Wang" writes: > And flock can only run external commands, it cannot do with things like bash > builtins or functions. You can also pass flock a file descriptor, which allows you to define a critical region inside your script. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@li

Re: exec status with no command is 0 but no redirection

ively, enclose the whole script in { ... } and add the pipe after that. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."

Re: String corruption using \W in prompt

   if (t) > - strcpy (t_string, t + 1); > + memmove (t_string, t + 1, sizeof(t)); Surely you want strlen. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."

Re: Weird behaviour of 'hash' builtin

Jan Schampera writes: > If this is not a bug, what's the reason behind this? Probably because a command name containing a slash is never looked up on $PATH, thus never remembered and put in the hash table. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 5

Re: =~ no longer working in bash-4.1

Farkas Levente writes: > hi, > =~ no longer working in bash. just try this little line: > - > if [[ "abc" =~ "abc.*" ]]; then echo inside; else echo outside; fi > - See question E14 in the Bash FAQ.

Re: new features to GNU Bash

mika.p.maki...@webinfo.fi writes: > user needs to write command mv /home/user/a/b/c/d/e/file > /home/user/a/b/c/d/e/fileB. $ mv /home/user/a/b/c/d/e/{file,fileB} Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED

Re: Bash cannot kill itself?

; ### END OF THE SCRIPT ### > > It does not work as I expected. The running script was not terminated after > 5 seconds. So what's wrong here? The shell is waiting for foreground process (sleep) to finish. During this time no other process will be started by the shell. Andreas.

Re: Naming convention of bash script filenames

Bob Proulx writes: > For an executable script I use no suffix at all. It matters not if > the script is a bash script, sh, ksh, perl, ruby, or whatever. Assuming it uses the appropriate shebang. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942

Re: How to run something before invoking the inputted command?

and1 > $ date; command2 > > Is there an easy way to do that? You can get from the history output, if you set HISTTIMEFORMAT. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."

Re: [bash-bug] parsing error with heredoc and command substitution

"Dr. Werner Fink" writes: > a=$((/bin/cat|wc -l) < a > b > EOF > ) Useless subshell. a=$({ /bin/cat | wc -l; } <

Re: BASH ignores language for command completion

Chet Ramey writes: > If en_US happens to be the system's default locale, of course. You > can only be sure that you'll get ASCII sorting order if you set > LANG=C. No, you need to set LC_ALL=C, because LANG has the lowest priority. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@lin

Re: function grammar

Bernd Eggink writes: > "If the function reserved word is supplied, the parentheses are > optional." While the grammer has the right rules for this the handling inside of special_case_tokens isn't right up to it, it only recognizes '{' following 'function

Re: empty lines at the end of quoted command subsitutions missing

koe...@science-computing.de writes: > empty line(s) at the end of quoted command subsitutions are missing: That is not a bug, but a feature. Command subsitution generally strips trailing newlines from the output of the command. If you want the complete output use a pipe. Andreas. -- Andr

Re: Strange behavior with job control

ubshell enough time to acutally execute the sleep command. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."

Re: RFE? request for an "undefined" attribute for functions

Bernd Eggink writes: > eval "function $name Don't use function, use "$name ()" instead. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."

Re: RFE: allow double quotes to group multi-words & be treated as 1 arg, w/DQ's stripped off -- including RH =~

Linda Walsh writes: > I would prefer this work: > > a="h." > > if [[ "hi" =~ "$a" ]]; This works (both with and without compat31): [[ "hi" =~ $a ]] && echo matches (It doesn't matter how you quote the lhs, anyway.) And

Re: The usage of [[ (not with if)

Bob Proulx writes: > Neither of those produce any output. > > $ printf '%d\n' "" > 0 Since the command substitution is not quoted the result of the expansion is subject to field splitting, thus expands to nothing at all instead of a single empty argument. A

Re: RFE: allow double quotes to group multi-words & be treated as 1 arg, w/DQ's stripped off -- including RH =~

Linda Walsh writes: > Or, why should double quotes be functionally the same as single quotes > in that situation? Handling it different from glob meta characters would make it even more special. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942

Re: documentation for ${!prefix*} is misleading

t matches how $* works), > and that the man page is simply misleading. Parameter expansion and word splitting are two separate steps. The quote above only talks about the former. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."

Re: documentation for ${!prefix*} is misleading

Greg Wooledge writes: > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 04:15:30PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote: >> Greg Wooledge writes: >> >> > The 4.1 man page says: >> > >> > ${!prefix*} >> > ${!pre...@} >> >Nam

Re: \c escape within $'...' can produce mangled UTF-8

Dennis Williamson writes: > It's the responsibility of your code to put an ASCII character after > the \c. There's no way for Bash to guess that the 0xD0 is part of a > Unicode character or the byte that it is. It can, by using mbrlen. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...

Re: \c escape within $'...' can produce mangled UTF-8

Dmitry Groshev writes: > Everything between 0x80 and 0xFF is part of (possibly invalid) > multibyte sequence in UTF-8. Who says that the string is UTF-8 encoded? Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED

Re: inconsistent field splitting

Marc Herbert writes: >for a in $(echo 1 2) ; do echo "x${a}x"; done This applies word splitting on the expansion of $(echo 1 2). > a=$(echo 1 2); echo "x${a}x" This doesn't. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint =

Re: inconsistent field splitting

se in an assignment. > Quoting makes a difference in some places but no difference in other > places (because of some kind of "implicit quoting"). There is a big difference between $ a=";" and $ a=; Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint =

Re: inconsistent field splitting

; is a nice feature in programming language > design but extremely low-priority compared to consistency. There is no inconsistency here. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."

Re: RFE: request for quotes as grouping operators to work in brackets as elsewhere.

al meaning of a character. > It is NOT the same as double quotes not allowing *file glob > expansion*. Globbing is not only about expansion, it is also about matching. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."

Re: asking for a better way to implement this

Ken Irving writes: > I'm guessing your $(which rm) is intended to avoid calling rm(), but maybe > \rm > would do the same thing? No, that still calls the function... I'm not sure > how to do that. $ command rm Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG

Re: asking for a better way to implement this

urprised. :-> syntax error near unexpected token `{su}' Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."

Re: higjacking commands

mmands and > do proper handling (emulate those which are known and give > error if one's still missing). > > Is there any way to do this easily ? Try using the DEBUG trap. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D

Re: difference between "readonly" and "declare -r"

Cristian Zoicas writes: > a) "readonly" and "declare -r" do not behave the same way; When used in a function, `declare' makes NAMEs local, as with the `local' command. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58

Re: associative array assignment from the output of a function

..@axel-asus plugins]$ declare -A foo=( $(func) ) $ declare -A foo=('[a]=5') bash: foo: [a]=5: must use subscript when assigning associative array $ eval "declare -A foo=($(echo '[a]=5'))"; echo ${foo[a]} 5 Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint

Re: associative array assignment from the output of a function

"Chris F.A. Johnson" writes: > On Fri, 22 Oct 2010, Andreas Schwab wrote: > >> Axel writes: >> >>> After your answer, I checked and I think the error message is not >>> related to the variable name collision : >>> >>> [a...@

Expansion from home directory

then this does not happen. Any explanations/ideas/fixes/etc? Thanks Andreas ___ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash

Re: Expansion from home directory

Hi Chet, I'm afraid I'm not quite sure what you mean. I assume it's installed because partial names are being completed. Also, I forgot to mention that I've encountered this problem on both RH Linux 9.0 and OS 10.3. Andreas Chet Ramey wrote: I apologize if this is old hat

Re: Expansion from home directory

The first command gave output. Does this mean that command-line completion was not active? If yes, how come I could complete paths before? Andreas Chet Ramey wrote: Andreas Haselbacher wrote: Hi Chet, I'm afraid I'm not quite sure what you mean. I assume it's installed becaus

Re: Expansion from home directory

ated to my problem. Andreas Paul Jarc wrote: Andreas Haselbacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The first command gave output. Does this mean that command-line completion was not active? It means that there were extra completion functions in use, overriding the default completion beha

Re: A possible bug on autocompletion after setting FUNCNEST level

:~/FOO# vi pr-bash: __reassemble_comp_words_by_ref: maximum function > nesting level exceeded (4) In which way is this a bug? AFAICT, FUNCNEST is doing its job. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs, sch...@suse.de GPG Key fingerprint = 0196 BAD8 1CE9 1970 F4BE 1748 E4D4 88E3 0EEA B9D7 "And now for something completely different."

Re: Bash-5.0-beta2 available for download

arrayfunc.c:valid_array_subscript when you pass VA_NOEXPAND. */ -static char * +static int expr_skipsubscript (vp, cp) char *vp, *cp; { -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now for something completely different."

Re: Error on arithmetic evaluation of `~0`.

t do that either for indexed array subscripts, since they are arithmetic expressions. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs, sch...@suse.de GPG Key fingerprint = 0196 BAD8 1CE9 1970 F4BE 1748 E4D4 88E3 0EEA B9D7 "And now for something completely different."

Re: A small documentation suggestion

On Jan 07 2019, Keith Thompson wrote: > I suggest documenting this behavior. It would be nice to be able to > depend on the exact format, for example that ${EPOCHREALTIME/*./} > is always exactly 6 digits long. ms=${EPOCHREALTIME/*./}00 ms=${ms:0:6} Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab,

Re: Regexp string in := parameter expansion triggers failglob

fact that := is used is irrelevant. > shell option is enabled, bash-5.0 emits a "no match: " At this point it is a glob pattern, not a regexp. > echo ${TESTPATTERN} If you don't want filename expansion, use quotes. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs, sch.

Re: Difference of extglob between 5.0.0(1)-release and 4.4.23(1)-release

which > starts with a '.' character. For the same reason `*.' doesn't match `.'. Making `@()' work differently from `*' would be surprising. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now for something completely different."

Re: bug: illegal function name?

On Jan 20 2019, Andrey Butirsky wrote: > |$ unset 1a || > ||bash: unset: `1a': not a valid identifier Use `unset -f'. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now for

Re: The use of register keyword in bash source code

some external devices. No, that is what volatile means. The register keyword is just an optimisation hint, and is mostly ignored by the compiler. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs, sch...@suse.de GPG Key fingerprint = 0196 BAD8 1CE9 1970 F4BE 1748 E4D4 88E3 0EEA B9D7 "And now for something completely different."

Re: The use of register keyword in bash source code

On Feb 06 2019, Peng Yu wrote: > If it is ignored anyway, why "register" is used in many places in the > code? Thanks. Because compilers were dumb in the old days. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs, sch...@suse.de GPG Key fingerprint = 0196 BAD8 1CE9 1970 F4BE 1748 E4D

Re: info missing in output of declare -a in 4.4.x

fference for me: > > BASH_CMDS > DIRSTACK > GROUPS > > Scalars that exhibit this issue: > > BASHPID > BASH_COMMAND > BASH_SUBSHELL > COMP_WORDBREAKS > HISTCMD > LINENO > RANDOM > SECONDS All these dynamic variables are displayed with values by declare -p after the va

Re: Documentation consistency in the Arrays section

}. > +declare -A @var{name} > @end example Perhaps it should be reformulated to avoid putting the example at the end of the sentence. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs, sch...@suse.de GPG Key fingerprint = 0196 BAD8 1CE9 1970 F4BE 1748 E4D4 88E3 0EEA B9D7 "And now for something completely different."

Spelling error in manual x2

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Re: wait -n shouldn't collect multiple processes

waits for a single job to terminate" Even better, IMHO: "wait waits for the next job to terminate" Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs, sch...@suse.de GPG Key fingerprint = 0196 BAD8 1CE9 1970 F4BE 1748 E4D4 88E3 0EEA B9D7 "And now for something completely different."

Re: "here strings" and tmpfiles

On Apr 10 2019, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > data written to the local filesystem can be discovered by someone > analyzing the disk controller data path, or by someone with access to > the underlying storage medium. Do you have swap enabled? Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SUSE

Re: Arithmetic expansion with increments and output redirection

fork looks reasonable, even if only to make it consistent with builtins. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now for something completely different."

Re: Backslash mysteriously disappears in command expansion when unescaping would reference an existing file

do grep -e "$(echo -n "$file" | sed 's/\$/\\$/g')" > someinput; done Use grep -F instead. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now for something completely different."

Re: `eval` pollutes the history when it runs "set -o history"

mands in the history is temporarily suppressed. The > thing is that enabling history with `set -o history' turns all of these > things on. But should the effect of `set -o history' be deferred until the end of the temporary suppression? Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs, sch...

Re: built-in printf %f parameter format depend on LC_NUMERIC

On Jul 12 2019, Chet Ramey wrote: > I assume this means that bc doesn't use strtod. Of course not, strtod doesn't parse arbitrary precision numbers. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1

Re: Combination of "eval set -- ..." and $() command substitution is slow

t; :123 *: It is not portable, see the autoconf manual: ... is not portable, since not all shells properly understand `"`..."..."...`"', for example Solaris 10 ksh: $ foo="`echo " bar" | sed 's, ,,'`" ksh: : cannot e

Re: Unexpected result of array assignment

t;]="'"${foo["key"]}"' value2")' This will break if ${foo["key"]} contains any of $ ` " \ . Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs, sch...@suse.de GPG Key fingerprint = 0196 BAD8 1CE9 1970 F4BE 1748 E4D4 88E3 0EEA B9D7 "And now for something completely different."

Re: leaks fd for internal functions but not external command

On Jul 23 2019, Sam Liddicott wrote: > It got closed in the parent. The lsof is running for the parent, the main > process. /bin/echo has quit before the lsof runs. When you run an external command the redirection is performed in the child. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SUSE Lab

Re: [Patch] (tiny problem) bad short_doc for % command

On Sep 21 2019, "Christopher Chittleborough" wrote: > The command "help -s %" outputs > %: job_spec [&] > when it should output > %: % job_spec [&] > because the $SHORT_DOC for "%" in builtins/reserved.def is wrong. A j

Re: Wrong command option in the manual examples

o real standard for this - NetBSD has deprecated the -depth > operator (which never really was one) and replaced it by a -d option > which makes much more sense (-depth never really was the right way to > do it). According to https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi, find -d already appeared

Re: bash sets O_NONBLOCK on pts

s different behaviour? Because it's reset immediately before reading the next line with readline. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now for something completely different."

Re: Is this a bug by any chance?

On Okt 07 2019, Greg Wooledge wrote: > x=(1 2 3 4 5 -n '/*' 'hello world') > for z in "${x[@]}"; do > printf %s "$z" > done > echo (IFS=; printf '%s\n' "${x[*]}") Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GP

Re: -e test description in the GNU Bash 5.0 man page from 7 December 2018

t; and this may be surprising from just reading the documentation. It also says: Unless otherwise specified, primaries that operate on files follow sym- bolic links and operate on the target of the link, rather than the link itself. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs,

Re: Feature Request: Custom delimeter for single quotes

erpolation). As you can see, if the user-specified command > has a single quote, it will break this command unless escaped. Just shell-quote the characters in the interpolated string, as you need to do anyway for the other interpolated strings. Not doing this would be a security bug waiting to

Re: quote removal issues within character class

eaning within a bracket >> expression. >> > > Is this really what the standard says, because '\\' is not a character, but > 2 characters. They could use "\\" but if a backslash is between single > quotes, it loses its special meaning. This is

Re: Request For Enhancement - TID variable

On Dez 26 2019, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > RFE: bash should have a TID varuable that returns the vakue of gettid(2). Bash doesn't use threads, so $TID will always be the same as $BASHPID. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 0

Re: Filename Expansion bug

it points to. But filename expansion is not operating on literal strings, it is operating on existing filesystem objects. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs, sch...@suse.de GPG Key fingerprint = 0196 BAD8 1CE9 1970 F4BE 1748 E4D4 88E3 0EEA B9D7 "And now for something completely different."

Re: Command substitution before while loop

ved words are only recognized at the start of a command, before any expansions. For the same reason a compound command cannot be preceded by redirections. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now

Re: Proposed new feature for bash: unbuffered pipes

See stdbuf(1). Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now for something completely different."

Re: How functions are defined

laced by "the > first word of a command (see SHELL GRAMMAR below)", which helps. Isn't (4) also a subset of (1)? Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now for something completely different."

Re: Bash-5.1-alpha available for download

kefile:326: installdirs-data-yes] Error 127 Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now for something completely different."

Re: ‘command … &’ creates subshell

e 126. And that's what bash does. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now for something completely different."

Re: (IMPORTANT/URGENT) Regarding Missing Files in bash source code?

On Jul 17 2020, Chet Ramey wrote: > So Greg's advice is appropriate: find out why bison is looking for that > file, It is one of its installed files used during runtime. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E78

Re: No word splitting for assignment-like expressions in compound assignment

On Jul 27 2020, Lawrence Velázquez wrote: > If word splitting were not performed in compound assignments, this... > > foo=(a b c) > > ...would not work. This is not true. Field splitting is only relevant for words generated by other expansions, not for literal tokens. Andrea

Re: Bash-5.1-beta available

<(filter) The reason for using a process substitution is so that the loop can set shell variables. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now for something completely different."

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