On 26/05/12 04:34, Russ Allbery wrote: > Philip Ashmore <[email protected]> writes: > >> Here's where I wish I was a shell script guru: >> for var in `cat set.txt`; do >> { if in env discard } >> done >> { sort offenders by decending size } >> Here's a summary of the ones that caught my eye. Sorry if I missed >> anyone out! > Oh. This is smelling like artifacts of bash-completion; perhaps set is > dumping your completion settings. I'm pretty sure those are not copied > into subshells and are only loaded in interactive shells. > In my original email I ran "set > set.txt && ls -lsa set.txt".
Putting the same into a script: #!/bin/sh set > set.txt && ls -lsa set.txt ...got me 2353 bytes - I'll be a donkeys ass! It looks like the fact that I typed it made it interactive, even though it didn't require/allow any interaction. Thanks, Philip -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
