At Friday 30 July 2010, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 09:49:22PM +0200, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> > But then, maybe an exit status of `2' instead of `1' in case of
> > errors in ((...)) would be helpful -- currently the exit status
> > is still `1'
> >
> > also if a real error is
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 09:49:22PM +0200, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> But then, maybe an exit status of `2' instead of `1' in case of errors
> in ((...)) would be helpful -- currently the exit status is still `1'
> also if a real error is present:
>
> $ ((1+)); echo \$?=$?
> bash: ((: 1+: synta
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 07:33:00PM +0100, Andrew Benton wrote:
> On 30/07/10 19:55, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> >I don't think it's a bug, it's just an effect of:
> > 1. `((EXPR))' returning a non-zero exit status iff EXPR evaluates
> > to zero, and
> That makes no sense to me. Why would eva
At Friday 30 July 2010, Andrew Benton wrote:
> On 30/07/10 19:55, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> > At Thursday 29 July 2010, Andrew Benton wrote:
> >> andy:~$ count=0
> >> andy:~$ ((count++))
> >> andy:~$ echo $?
> >> 1
> >> andy:~$ ((count++))
> >> andy:~$ echo $?
> >> 0
> >
> > I don't think it's a
On 30/07/10 19:55, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
At Thursday 29 July 2010, Andrew Benton wrote:
andy:~$ count=0
andy:~$ ((count++))
andy:~$ echo $?
1
andy:~$ ((count++))
andy:~$ echo $?
0
I don't think it's a bug, it's just an effect of:
1. `((EXPR))' returning a non-zero exit status iff EXPR ev
At Thursday 29 July 2010, Andrew Benton wrote:
>
> andy:~$ count=0
> andy:~$ ((count++))
> andy:~$ echo $?
> 1
> andy:~$ ((count++))
> andy:~$ echo $?
> 0
I don't think it's a bug, it's just an effect of:
1. `((EXPR))' returning a non-zero exit status iff EXPR evaluates
to zero, and
2. `v
Package: bash
Version: 4.1-3
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch upstream
Hi Chet, Matthias,
While updating the French translation of Bash manual pages (for the
manpages-fr-extra package), I spotted a few typos and other style stuff.
Please find attached a patch against the version shipped in the sour
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' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/loca
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:55:51PM +0200, Bernd Eggink wrote:
> It seems that indirect expansion doesn't work with arrays:
ksh93 has a feature called nameref:
myfunc() {
nameref ref=$1
echo "array $1 has ${#ref[*]} elements"
}
I wouldn't mind seeing this in bash, though I'm not going to at
