Re: Redirect to variable

e above with and without the #. -- Ilkka Virta / itvi...@iki.fi

Re: $OPTIND varibale value is different from sh

dash : 2 3 3 3 3 hello busybox sh: 2 3 3 3 3 hello bash : 2 2 2 3 3 hello ksh93 : 2 2 2 3 3 hello zsh : 1 2 2 2 3 hello -- Ilkka Virta / itvi...@iki.fi

Re: cat<(echo text) not same as cat <(echo text)

n some cases you might want the filename prefixed with a string, e.g.: somecmd --file=<(echo something) Ksh's behavior makes that impossible. -- Ilkka Virta / itvi...@iki.fi

Re: Conditions with logical operators and nested groups execute "if" and "else"

On 31.5. 02:20, L A Walsh wrote: Ilkka Virta wrote: On 22.5. 00:17, Uriel wrote: As you know, a conditional is of the type: if [[ EXPRESSION ]]; then TRUE CONDITION; else ALTERNATIVE RESULT; fi Or with logical operators and groups: [[ EXPRESSION ]] && { TRUE CONDITION; } || { ALT

Re: Conditions with logical operators and nested groups execute "if" and "else"

version of the script below looks horribly unreadable. the problem seems to be one of the operator «!» in a «=~» conditional because when testing this same notation with other conditions it does not seem to have an error. You can hit that in other ways, too, e.g.: falsy_echo() { echo &q

Documentation for a="$@"

al is an older version than that in git, but I didn't see this mentioned in the devel version of the manual either.) [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Shell-Parameters.html [2] https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Special-Parameters.html -- Ilkka Virta / itvi...@iki.fi

Re: Following symlinks in globstar (part 2)

e link, but doesn't recurse through it? Did I get that right? That does seem somewhat surprising. The documentation on globstar doesn't seem to mention anything about behaviour re. symlinks either. -- Ilkka Virta / itvi...@iki.fi

Re: bash long prompt, color going past the end of prompt after reaching bottom of terminal

tput sgr0)". You probably don't have anything to the right of the cursor at that point, so it'll only reset the color. -- Ilkka Virta / itvi...@iki.fi

Re: Strange/incorrect behavior of a fake executable file

In the end it does get interpreted as a shell script, in both cases. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/373223/which-shell-interpreter-runs-a-script-with-no-shebang -- Ilkka Virta / itvi...@iki.fi

Re: [minor] umask 400 causes here-{doc,string} failure

lar error condition, without changing the overall behaviour. 2 would have my preference. -- Ilkka Virta / itvi...@iki.fi

Re: Quoting and string comparison

, there are no quotes in the string to be compared, you've just quoted the string on the left-hand side. The quotes are removed as usual before the string is compared. echo "$(for f in a b c; do if [[ '"$f"' > b ]]; then echo "$f > b"; else echo "$f <= b&

Re: anomalous behaviour of ls command

lettercase (it would also make a* match A). -- Ilkka Virta / itvi...@iki.fi

Re: Feature request: tab completion on functions

case. Sort of confusing, really. -- Ilkka Virta / itvi...@iki.fi

Re: set $'\001'; v=$* converted $'\001' to $'\001\001'

bject: foo=$*: ^A and DEL are prefixed or removed http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2017-11/msg00107.html If I read the commit message correctly, this looks like a fix for it: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/commit/?h=devel=32dc2bf525399a80ef098bcf852331bc276c7ce8 -- Ilkka Virta / itvi...@iki.fi

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