Hi! Thank you for your quick and complete answer.
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 09:30:19PM -0400, Kris Maglione wrote: > First of all, you're making things too complicated. The following > would suffice: You're right, but I wanted to know was the reason why this command didn't work in wmiirc. You gave me the answer: > Second, your problem is that wmiirc disables globbing. This is also > the problem with your bbb script. You have the -f flag in the > shebang line when you run dash, but not bash. If you want it to > work, either add 'local set +f' to the function or ls the directory > rather than globbing its contents. I had no idea of what "globbing" means, although I use it every day, and I would have never imagined that such a convenient feature could be disabled. Now it's clearer, thanks again. > UNIX was not designed to stop its users from doing stupid things, as > that would also stop them from doing clever things. > --Doug Gwyn I do like this quotation! :-) By the way, what I wanted to do when I encountered this "stupid" problem with -f flag, if not "clever", might at least be usefull for other people. I wanted to add to wmii some basic ability to deal with USB pens: - mount and open them automatically when plugged in; - show them as buttons in the right bar, with focus or normal colors depending on whether their file system is mounted or unmounted; - unmount/remount them by simple clicks on their buttons. It might be that your removable device manager skvm does this job perfectly, I don't know. The point is that skvm is not available in the core repository of Arch Linux, the distro I'm using from now on, and I do not use to compile programs from source. So I have found a way to add this feature with wmii-3.9.2 just by modifying appropriately the wmiirc file. If some people are interested, this is available here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=794658#p794658 Regards, LuX.
