On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 12:03:56PM -0700, eatsubway wrote:
>
> hello, i have a simple question. I have a string which i would like to
> format by replacing spaces with newlines and tabs, and also adding a tab to
> the beginning.
The printf builtin will do that easily. If you give it a format
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Compiler: gcc
Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i386'
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-DCONF_VENDOR='redhat' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale' -DPA
hello, i have a simple question. I have a string which i would like to
format by replacing spaces with newlines and tabs, and also adding a tab to
the beginning.
the variable...
MyVar="Hello, how are you doing today?"
I would like to print this
Hello,
how
are
you
doing
tod
I noticed that bash has changed behaviour regarding subshell handling,
breaking a script of mine. Now a script with -e fails when a subshell
fails whereas it didn't before. I looked at the CHANGES file and
couldn't find anything about this, so I wanted to ask if this change
was intentional or if
Mike Stroyan wrote:
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 02:36:30AM -0700, thahn01 wrote:
Hello, If I try something like:
$ touch a.c b.c A.c
$ ls [a-z]*.c
a.c A.c b.c
then I get A.c in the output, even if no capital letters are to be found.
The "[a-z]" range expression matches characters between a a
> It depends heavily on how the variables IFS and zf are set. From 'man bash':
>
> -W wordlist
> The wordlist is split using the characters in the IFS special
> variable as delimiters, and each resultant word is expanded.
> The possible completions are the members of the resultant
>
Mathias Dahl schrieb:
Hi fellow bashers!
I am trying to add some completion to a command. The completion should
list all movies I have in a certain folder, regardless if I am in that
folder or not. I have kind of got it to work in several variants but
all have some issue. The current problem I a
