Re: Request to a new feature on read

Any reason to justify this instead of using a simple loop? -- Eduardo Bustamante https://dualbus.me/

Re: Request to a new feature on read

While I was developing a small script, I thought about how to use -N flag to a greater extent. Although -N in its own is very limited. It does serve the purpose but not what I need. I also discussed this in #bash freenode, and got some ideas like: pgas: while read -n1 d;do case $d in

Re: Request to a new feature on read

On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 09:39:08AM -0500, Dan Douglas wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 9:32 AM, Greg Wooledge wool...@eeg.ccf.org wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 09:29:56AM -0500, Dan Douglas wrote: I find myself in need of something along the lines of Python's `re.split` and `re.findall` all

Re: Request to a new feature on read

On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Greg Wooledge wool...@eeg.ccf.org wrote: I don't see why such features should be compiled into bash's read builtin. I'd have no problem with adding better splitting/joining/parsing features in a more general context, probably operating on a string variable, but

Re: Request to a new feature on read

On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 9:32 AM, Greg Wooledge wool...@eeg.ccf.org wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 09:29:56AM -0500, Dan Douglas wrote: I find myself in need of something along the lines of Python's `re.split` and `re.findall` all the time. E.g. splitting an ip into an array of octets. IFS=.

Re: Request to a new feature on read

On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 09:29:56AM -0500, Dan Douglas wrote: I find myself in need of something along the lines of Python's `re.split` and `re.findall` all the time. E.g. splitting an ip into an array of octets. IFS=. read -ra octets $ip

Request to a new feature on read

Hi, According to ''help read'' we can specify -N[chars] to trigger return automatically. Is it possible to approach read differently? For example: $re is some regular expression read -N$re -p Enter two or three digits to continue getInput The above is much of a pseudo-code but I hope you

Re: Request to a new feature on read

On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 8:55 AM, Eduardo A. Bustamante López dual...@gmail.com wrote: Any reason to justify this instead of using a simple loop? I find myself in need of something along the lines of Python's `re.split` and `re.findall` all the time. E.g. splitting an ip into an array of octets.