On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Ken Irving <ken.irv...@alaska.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 09:16:05AM +0000, Marc Herbert wrote: > > >> Could this sentence: > > >> > > >> "An interactive shell is one started without non-option arguments, > > >> unless -sis specified, without specifying the > > >> -c option, and whose input and error output are both connected to > terminals > > >> (as determined by isatty(3)), or one started with the -i option. " > > >> > > >> be any more confusing? > > > > > > Is seems pretty clearly stated to me. > > > > Please enlighten us with the priority of English boolean operators. > > > > I have never seen a natural language sentence with so many boolean > operators. > > Well I can try. > > An interactive shell is one started without non-option arguments, > > If there are any arguments then they must be options... > > unless -s is specified, > > bash(1) says: "If the -s option is present ... then commands are read > from the standard input", which clearly is not interactive. > If you run "bash -s foo bar" in a terminal it starts an interactive shell.
