Re: Bash handling of ENOENT on missing files and directories

2017-09-06 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Tue, 5 Sep 2017 10:57:20 -0400, Greg Wooledge stated: >Keep following this slippery slope and you get Microsoft Windows error >messages that say nothing useful at all. "An error has occurred." True, to a point. However, launching the "C:\WINDOWS\System32\eventvwr.exe" application and then

Readline

2016-09-24 Thread Gerard Seibert
Out of morbid curiosity, has a date been set for the release of "readline-7.0"? I know that there is an "RC" version in the wild right now. -- Gerard

Re: don't just seek to the next line if the script has been edited

2013-06-07 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Fri, 7 Jun 2013 10:19:44 -0400 Greg Wooledge articulated: Yes it can. You're talking about adding a ridiculous amount of extra checking and performance penalty to try to avoid users shooting themselves in the foot *on Unix*. The job of the OS is not to prevent a user from shooting

Re: ';' redirection operator

2011-12-24 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Sat, 24 Dec 2011 15:08:34 -0600 Bill Gradwohl articulated: My original post was only to suggest that instead of more bells and whistles, talent should be applied towards the documentation of what is already there. Bill, it is a well known fact that the developers of a product are usually

multi-dimensional arrays

2011-09-17 Thread Gerard Seibert
Just out of curiosity, are there any plans to make multi-dimensional array variables available in future versions of Bash? I would find it extremely useful. -- Gerard ✌ ger...@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To

Re: bash auto complete malloc 'assertion botched' error

2010-10-09 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 16:51:36 -0400 Fletcher Johnson flt.john...@gmail.com articulated: Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: Machine: i486 OS: linux-gnu Compiler: gcc Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i486' -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu'