> > Does not seem to work. Example with a little stupid nonsense script:
>
> it does, you just took a bad example that hits a cornercase.
I think I choose a rather good example. There were three syntax issues in the
example:
1) unsafe $blah instead of ${blah}
2) == instead of = (bashism)
3) a missing whitespace (which was my most frequent error when I started
writing shell scripts because I come from whitespace agnostic programming
languages)
Another strange thing: The man page of bash does only implicitly mention
the "-n" option in the description of the "-D" option: "This implies the -n
option; no commands will be executed."
All in all it looks like the "-n" option is poorly documented and
implementation is incomplete. Am I wrong or is it time to write a bug report
to [email protected]?
Regards
Ronny
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