Re: [PATCH] safelocale

2009-03-01 Thread Chet Ramey
Greg Wooledge wrote: I wrote this after learning of a security hole in $... expansion. (See http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/bash.html for details of that.) It seems to me that the security hole is the possibility of command substitution, rather than arbitary word

Possibly Off Topic Rant

2009-03-01 Thread Ray Parrish
Hello, I'm a fairly new user in Linux, and I've been studying and attempting to use the commands available to me at the command line by reading the man and info pages. I'm running into lots of problems determining the proper syntax for many of the commands due to very sketchy documentation.

Re: Possibly Off Topic Rant

2009-03-01 Thread Chet Ramey
Ray Parrish wrote: Hello, I'm a fairly new user in Linux, and I've been studying and attempting to use the commands available to me at the command line by reading the man and info pages. I'm running into lots of problems determining the proper syntax for many of the commands due to very

Re: Possibly Off Topic Rant

2009-03-01 Thread Ray Parrish
Chet Ramey wrote: Ray Parrish wrote: Hello, I'm a fairly new user in Linux, and I've been studying and attempting to use the commands available to me at the command line by reading the man and info pages. I'm running into lots of problems determining the proper syntax for many of the

2 regressions related to PROMPT_COMMAND

2009-03-01 Thread smallnow
Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: Machine: x86_64 OS: linux-gnu Compiler: gcc Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='x86_64' -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu' -DCONF_VENDOR='unknown'

Re: Possibly Off Topic Rant

2009-03-01 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 02 March 2009 00:22:15 Ray Parrish wrote: but it would be nice if the man pages would at least mention things like this parameter has to be quoted to work or use a * on the end of the path to activate the --recursive option. It took me hours to find that out with the ls command, see