Re: umask --help

2014-10-10 Thread Notes Jonny
On 10 Oct 2014 01:25, Chet Ramey chet.ra...@case.edu wrote: On 10/9/14, 3:05 PM, Notes Jonny wrote: If and when it happens, it will show up in the devel git branch on savannah. Chet Thank you for your reply. I understand that requests can't be implemented immediately. Is

Re: umask --help

2014-10-09 Thread Notes Jonny
On 2 Sep 2014 16:48, Chet Ramey chet.ra...@case.edu wrote: On 9/2/14, 5:37 AM, Notes Jonny wrote: Hi Guys Any update on implementing this? I haven't done anything with this yet. If and when it happens, it will show up in the devel git branch on savannah. Chet -- ``The lyf so

Re: umask --help

2014-10-09 Thread Chet Ramey
On 10/9/14, 3:05 PM, Notes Jonny wrote: If and when it happens, it will show up in the devel git branch on savannah. Chet Thank you for your reply. I understand that requests can't be implemented immediately. Is there anything I could do to get this implemented? Eg. I would offer to

Re: umask --help

2014-09-02 Thread Notes Jonny
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Pádraig Brady p...@draigbrady.com wrote: On 07/30/2014 07:48 PM, Chet Ramey wrote: On 7/30/14, 2:44 PM, Notes Jonny wrote: On 7 Jul 2014 19:47, Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com wrote: On 07/07/2014 12:34 PM, Chris Down wrote: Hi Jon, As is standard with other

Re: umask --help

2014-09-02 Thread Chet Ramey
On 9/2/14, 5:37 AM, Notes Jonny wrote: Hi Guys Any update on implementing this? I haven't done anything with this yet. If and when it happens, it will show up in the devel git branch on savannah. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars

Re: umask --help

2014-07-31 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 07/30/2014 07:48 PM, Chet Ramey wrote: On 7/30/14, 2:44 PM, Notes Jonny wrote: On 7 Jul 2014 19:47, Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com wrote: On 07/07/2014 12:34 PM, Chris Down wrote: Hi Jon, As is standard with other buitins, umask is documented at `help umask`: That said, POSIX allows, and

Re: umask --help

2014-07-30 Thread Notes Jonny
On 7 Jul 2014 19:47, Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com wrote: On 07/07/2014 12:34 PM, Chris Down wrote: Hi Jon, As is standard with other buitins, umask is documented at `help umask`: That said, POSIX allows, and ksh already supports, the use of --help as an option to ALL builtins. It might

Re: umask --help

2014-07-30 Thread Chet Ramey
On 7/30/14, 2:44 PM, Notes Jonny wrote: On 7 Jul 2014 19:47, Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com wrote: On 07/07/2014 12:34 PM, Chris Down wrote: Hi Jon, As is standard with other buitins, umask is documented at `help umask`: That said, POSIX allows, and ksh already supports, the use of --help as

umask --help

2014-07-07 Thread Notes Jonny
Hello Thank you for developing bash. I am using GNU Bash-4.0 Would you consider adding a --help option for umask please? (I understand this is a built in command) Maybe also --version I was just hoping to find some help for it. info umask and man umask also don't say anything. Regards, Jon

Re: umask --help

2014-07-07 Thread Chris Down
Hi Jon, As is standard with other buitins, umask is documented at `help umask`: chris@gopher:~$ help umask umask: umask [-p] [-S] [mode] Display or set file mode mask. Sets the user file-creation mask to MODE. If MODE is omitted, prints the current value

Re: umask --help

2014-07-07 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
On Mon, 7 Jul 2014, Notes Jonny wrote: ... Would you consider adding a --help option for umask please? (I understand this is a built in command) Maybe also --version I was just hoping to find some help for it. info umask and man umask also don't say anything. help umask

Re: umask --help

2014-07-07 Thread Notes Jonny
On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 7:34 PM, Chris Down ch...@chrisdown.name wrote: Hi Jon, As is standard with other buitins, umask is documented at `help umask`: chris@gopher:~$ help umask umask: umask [-p] [-S] [mode] Display or set file mode mask. Sets the user

Re: umask --help

2014-07-07 Thread Eric Blake
On 07/07/2014 12:34 PM, Chris Down wrote: Hi Jon, As is standard with other buitins, umask is documented at `help umask`: That said, POSIX allows, and ksh already supports, the use of --help as an option to ALL builtins. It might be nice if bash were to take a leaf from ksh and add generic