On 11/20/18 9:24 AM, Martijn Dekker wrote:
> That ^A / $'\1' character just keeps causing trouble...
>
> This is a bug with IFS. Including a $'\1' character anywhere in IFS causes
> expansions in shell assignments to discard that character.
>
> $ bash -c "c=$'Y\1Y';
> for IFS in $'\1' $'\2'
On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 01:24:38PM -0500, Chet Ramey wrote:
> The second beta release of bash-5.0 is now available with the URL
>
> ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/bash-5.0-beta2.tar.gz
>
I see this
[ 2709s] seq.c: In function 'long_double_format':
[ 2709s] seq.c:166:9: error: expected ';' before
On 11/29/18 7:09 AM, Dr. Werner Fink wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 01:24:38PM -0500, Chet Ramey wrote:
>> The second beta release of bash-5.0 is now available with the URL
>>
>> ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/bash-5.0-beta2.tar.gz
>>
> I see this
>
> [ 2709s] seq.c: In function
On 11/26/18 1:29 PM, Martijn Dekker wrote:
> I've noticed bash-5.0beta is quite a bit faster than bash-4.4 in running a
> lot of pure shell code. Good news.
>
> One optimisation that isn't done yet: if a subshell function like
>
> f() (foo)
>
> is used in a command substitution, it forks
