On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Bernd Eggink mono...@sudrala.de wrote:
On 09.08.2011 15:50, Steven W. Orr wrote:
*) You reset OPTIND to 1 but you didn't declare it local. This will
cause any caller of getlink which uses getopts to reset its variable
to 1. (I mention this because it cost me
Hello,
Am Montag, 8. August 2011 19:20:25 UTC+2 schrieb Steven W. Orr:
if (( debug ))
then
_debug()
{
$@
# I do question whether this is a viable construct, versus
# eval $@
}
else
_debug()
{
:
}
fi
on
2011-08-10 23:05:26 +, Karl Berry:
not sure who to report that to
I've asked the FSF sysadmins. I can see from the mailing list
configuration that the gateway is intended to be operational, but don't
know how to debug what it happening from there.
[...]
Thanks Karl.
My last
Hi!
I often get a bash message about new mail during command line completion.
Steps to reproduce:
Type ls ~/.bas and press tab.
Expected result:
Command line completed to ls ~/.bash or whatever is right.
Actual result:
If new mails have arrived, the mail check is performed when pressing
tab,
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:23:00AM -0700, pjodrr wrote:
Hello,
Am Montag, 8. August 2011 19:20:25 UTC+2 schrieb Steven W. Orr:
if (( debug ))
then
_debug()
{
$@
# I do question whether this is a viable construct, versus
# eval $@
}
else
On 08/10/2011 10:39 PM, Linda Walsh wrote:
Chet Ramey wrote:
If not, then wouldn't
$((( ))) be turned into $( (( )) ), meaning the arith returns a
status,
and not the calculation. (I've tested this, and this is the case.
Then I said:
It sounded to me like $(( )) would be translated into
Great website (http://wiki.bash-hackers.org) explaining the changes in bash-4.*
along with all other versions. (The web pages also note it's not a full list of
changes.)
In the past, I've scanned Bash's ChangeLog and it didn't provide any meaningful
explanations, just very brief details.
(It
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 03:23:47PM -0700, Linda W wrote:
1 #!/bin/bash
2
30
31 # trace control for subs
32 declare -ix Allow_Trace=$(((
33 _D_LowLevel |
34 _D_Provides |
35 _D_
36 )))
I
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 03:48:51AM -0800, Roger wrote:
Great website (http://wiki.bash-hackers.org) explaining the changes in bash-4.*
along with all other versions. (The web pages also note it's not a full list
of
changes.)
In the past, I've scanned Bash's ChangeLog and it didn't provide any
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:23:00AM -0700, pjodrr wrote:
they call it collapsing functions:
http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/howto/collapsing_functions
The first time you run chatter(), the function redefines itself based on the
value of verbose. Thereafter chatter doesn't check $verbose anymore, it
Am Donnerstag, 11. August 2011 14:13:27 UTC+2 schrieb Greg Wooledge:
The problem with this is that you can't switch to the other function
later.
this is intended. The idea is to call a script with a debug
or no-debug option. So for the runtime of the script the
debug() function does not
2011-05-30, 06:34(+00), Michael Witten:
[...]
Ben, it is generally a good idea to maintain the `Cc' list unless
explicitly asked.
Beware that the bash mailing list also has a usenet interface
(gnu.bash.bug) which has no notion of recipients let alone Cc.
--
Stephane
2011-08-08, 13:55(-07), Linda Walsh:
[...]
and both 'exit' and 'return' should return error ERANGE if --posix is
set, and -1 is given. Iinvalid option doesn't make as much sense, in
this situtation, if it was -k or -m, sure...but in this case, it's a fact
that --posix artificially limits exit
2011-08-02, 23:41(+02), mhenn:
Am 02.08.2011 15:55, schrieb Stephane CHAZELAS:
[...]
What about:
#! /bin/bash -
:||:\#__END__
whatever you like here
#__END__
[...]
Why did you use :||: ...
and not just :... ?
when testing it, it doesn't make any difference:
[...]
Without :||, it
2011-08-9, 09:24(+00), Stephane CHAZELAS:
2011-08-9, 11:44(+10), Jon Seymour:
Has anyone ever come across an equivalent to Linux's readlink -f that
is implemented purely in bash?
(I need readlink's function on AIX where it doesn't seem to be available).
[...]
What about:
readlink_f() (
2011-08-09, 11:29(+02), Bernd Eggink:
On 09.08.2011 03:44, Jon Seymour wrote:
Has anyone ever come across an equivalent to Linux's readlink -f that
is implemented purely in bash?
You can find my version here:
http://sudrala.de/en_d/shell-getlink.html
As it contains some corrections
On 8/10/11 10:59 PM, Clark J. Wang wrote:
How can people write stable scripts in an enironment of constant change?
This is creating the exact opposite of what POSIX is supposed to help!
I found the similar problem. Bash has changed a lot since 2.05b which is the
1st version of bash I've
On 8/11/11 6:23 AM, Martin von Gagern wrote:
Hi!
I often get a bash message about new mail during command line completion.
Steps to reproduce:
Type ls ~/.bas and press tab.
Expected result:
Command line completed to ls ~/.bash or whatever is right.
Actual result:
If new mails have
Hi Chet,
thanks for the swift reply!
On 11.08.2011 15:54, Chet Ramey wrote:
I suspect that you have a completion defined for `ls' and it's running a
command or process substitution that's causing the mail check. Can you
run `set -x', then attempt the completion again and post the results?
On 8/11/11 10:35 AM, Martin von Gagern wrote:
Hi Chet,
thanks for the swift reply!
On 11.08.2011 15:54, Chet Ramey wrote:
I suspect that you have a completion defined for `ls' and it's running a
command or process substitution that's causing the mail check. Can you
run `set -x', then
On 09.08.2011 16:54, Stephane CHAZELAS wrote:
2011-08-09, 09:50(-04), Steven W. Orr:
[...]
*) To remove the trailing slashes, instead of
while [[ $file == */ ]]
do
file=${file%/}
done
file=${file##*/}# file name
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 08:13:27AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:23:00AM -0700, pjodrr wrote:
they call it collapsing functions:
http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/howto/collapsing_functions
The first time you run chatter(), the function redefines itself based on the
value
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:38:17PM -0800, Roger wrote:
OK. Now I see the collapsing, and it seems more like a hidden collapse rather
then an immediately apparent collapse from an initial stance after
reading/tracing. When tracing this function, I was thinking the function
would be read each
On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote:
People sometimes read the POSIX standard today and think it is a
design document. Let me correct that misunderstanding. It is not.
POSIX is an operating system non-proliferation treaty.
Love it!
jon.
On 8/11/11 10:44 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:
It's hard to say without a better idea of the problem. I suspected either
eval or command substitution because they cause re-entry into the shell
parser. I don't suspect command substitution because that explicitly turns
off interactive mode, but eval
` Stephane CHAZELAS wrote:
2011-08-08, 13:55(-07), Linda Walsh:
[...]
and both 'exit' and 'return' should return error ERANGE if --posix is
set, and -1 is given. Iinvalid option doesn't make as much sense, in
this situtation, if it was -k or -m, sure...but in this case, it's a fact
that
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