On Tuesday, August 18, 2015 9:54:55 AM CDT Isaac Good wrote:
Would you mind sharing the rational behind having it undocumented?
Since I like guessing: the syntax for parameter expansion operators is
currently non-extensible, so the namespace of terse operators is in limited
supply. New syntax
On 8/18/15 1:43 PM, Dan Douglas wrote:
On Tuesday, August 18, 2015 9:54:55 AM CDT Isaac Good wrote:
Would you mind sharing the rational behind having it undocumented?
Since I like guessing: the syntax for parameter expansion operators is
currently non-extensible, so the namespace of terse
On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 09:22:07AM -0500, Dan Douglas wrote:
The `~` is obviously inspired by the vim
movement to toggle caps.
~ is standard vi, not a vim extension.
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On 8/18/15 9:50 AM, Dan Douglas wrote:
Description:
The man page fails to document the ${var~} and ${var~~} case inversion
expansion.
It got the upper and lower, ie ${var^} and ${var,} but not invert.
Fix:
More documentation.
I'm pretty sure that's intentional. The corresponding
On Tuesday, August 18, 2015 08:50:51 AM Dan Douglas wrote:
I'm pretty sure that's intentional. The corresponding `declare -c` has never
been documented either.
Hrm, it doesn't correspond actually. declare -c just capitalizes the first
letter of the string.
Another thing about the ${var~}
Would you mind sharing the rational behind having it undocumented?
On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 7:38 AM, Chet Ramey chet.ra...@case.edu wrote:
On 8/18/15 9:50 AM, Dan Douglas wrote:
Description:
The man page fails to document the ${var~} and ${var~~} case inversion
expansion.
It got the
