On 07/11/2010 05:07 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:
On 7/10/10 11:00 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 9:52 PM, Chet Rameychet.ra...@case.edu wrote:
On 7/10/10 9:57 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
Hi,
I have a directory named '\E' (two letters, rather than a single
special character). I
On 7/21/10 7:55 AM, Roman Rakus wrote:
I can reproduce it.
Of course you can. You asked to see it.
[rra...@dhcp-lab-170 tmp]$ mkdir '\E'
[rra...@dhcp-lab-170 tmp]$ cd \\E/
]0;rra...@dhcp-lab-170:~/tmp/ra...@dhcp-lab-170 \E]$
]0;rra...@dhcp-lab-170:~/tmp/ra...@dhcp-lab-170 \E]$ set -x
I'm trying to learn how bash completion works, so that I can
write completion functions for some utilities.
As an experiment, I wrote the following trivial completion. It
is intended to report that the completions for the current word
are exactly the contents of the current word:
_test () {
There are times when adherence to historical bugs is a reminder
of the great flaw of the standards process.
Broken standards should be fixable
That said...um yeah...practicality indicates steering around
broken POSIX functionality...
Eric Blake wrote:
On 07/20/2010 03:22 PM, Garrett
man page says
MAIL If this parameter is set to a file name and the MAILPATH
variable is not set, bash informs the user of the
arrival of mail in the specified file.
OK, but also mention one can set it to a directory.
And say that
MAIL=$HOME/Maildir/
is what Maildir
