Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 11:52:47AM -0800, Linda Walsh wrote:
Also, from a documentation standpoint, not all behaviors are documented
in the manpage, like:
echo $[1+2]
as far as I can tell, isn't documented, yet not supporting
its behavior would break many older
On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 11:52:47AM -0800, Linda Walsh wrote:
> Also, from a documentation standpoint, not all behaviors are documented
> in the manpage, like:
>
> echo $[1+2]
>
> as far as I can tell, isn't documented, yet not supporting
> its behavior would break many older scripts
That
Chet Ramey wrote:
No. The shell doesn't perform any word expansions on the `name' when
executing a function definition command. Since the documentation doesn't
say it performs any expansions, why would you assume it does?
Because it does quote quote removal on other statements that
On 1/10/16 2:23 AM, Martin D Kealey wrote:
> Bash Version: 4.3
> Patch Level: 11
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
> The first backgrounded element within a pipeline component has its
> stdin redirected to /dev/null; this does not apply to the second and
> subsequent
On Mon, 11 Jan 2016, Chet Ramey wrote:
> "The standard input for an asynchronous list, before any explicit
> redirections are performed, shall be considered to be assigned to a file
> that has the same properties as /dev/null."
I thought the (only) point of that to avoid a background job
