On Sunday 11 May 2008 04:16, Chet Ramey wrote:
pk wrote:
The man page says that bash builtin printf supports the standard
printf(1) formats. But it seems that \u is not working:
$ /usr/bin/printf '\u212b\n'
Å
$ printf '\u212b\n'
\u212b
Am I doing something wrong here?
The `\u'
Is there any way to get a handle on what matched in a case statement?
Something like this:
case lawlesspoets in
*poets)
echo $CASEMATCH one
;;
lawless*)
echo $CASEMATCH two
;;
esac
--
Yorick
Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:
probably errornous behavior:
when using compgen to allow shortcuts (in the below example for quit and
exit I get a strange behavior when no input is entered and write times
out after 5 seconds:
#! /bin/bash
read -p
