Re: filename pattern case-insensitive, but why?

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 and z in the

Re: Strange compgen behaviour

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

Re: Strange compgen behaviour

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    

Re: filename pattern case-insensitive, but why?

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

Change in behaviour regarding subshell handling?

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

string format

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

bash 4 parse error on here-document in $()

Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: Machine: i386 OS: linux-gnu Compiler: gcc Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i386' -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i386-redhat-linux-gnu' -DCONF_VENDOR='redhat' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale'

Re: string format

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