Re: mksh: first impressions

2013-04-04 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Finn Thain dixit: For some time I have been meaning to check out mksh, and your email prompted me to install it. The first thing I noticed was how good the documentation is (the bash man page is missing a lot of stuff). Great! Most of the manual page was not written by me, mind you, standing

Re: mksh: first impressions

2013-04-04 Thread Finn Thain
On Thu, 4 Apr 2013, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Finn Thain dixit: The mksh man page says, the assignments are in effect only for the duration of the command. In bash you might do, Yes, that's POSIX-mandated for special builtin utilities or somesuch-worded. So is : a NOP, or is it a