Eric Blake wrote:
According to Pádraig Brady on 10/21/2008 4:04 PM:
echo $ver | sed '
s/^\([0-9]\{,\}\)\.\([0-9]\{,\}\)[.0]*$/\1.\2.0/; #1.10 -
1.10.0
s/^\([0-9]\{,\}\)\.\([0-9]\{,\}\)\([a-z]\)/\1.\2.99\3/; #1.10a -
1.10.99a
For what it's worth, Autoconf does
These two switches are necessary for POSIX compatibility. I note that bash's
pwd does support them; is the intention that bash's built-in pwd, which
does, should fill this gap in a GNU system?
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According to Reuben Thomas on 10/22/2008 6:08 AM:
These two switches are necessary for POSIX compatibility. I note that
bash's pwd does support them; is the intention that bash's built-in pwd,
which does, should fill this gap in a GNU system?
It
Here's a suggestion that would be a lot simpler to implement: have pwd
implement -P as a no-op, and document the lack of -L, and the conflict with
the POSIX default behaviour. I'd be happy to write a documentation patch.
That will enlighten users; if anyone cares enough about coreutils's pwd
Pádraig Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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latest version is attached
(minor tweaks compared to previous).
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Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:40:12 +0100
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Paul Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jim Meyering [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Good thing I tried to compile before pushing!
The above lacks \n\ on the 0 if OK line.
It's also lacking a close-parenthesis in the text. Also, that wording
is a bit verbose for my taste; the verbosity makes it a
Hello,
Eric Blake is correct. I glossed over a short paragraph
in the Open Group standard doc page for 'expr' at the end
of the 'Application Usage' section where there is a statement
that permits something like '-1' to look like an option not the
integer, '-1'.
This means that the MATLAB
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According to Martin Knapp-Cordes on 10/22/2008 12:17 PM:
This means that the MATLAB startup shell script is indeed
not Open Group compliant. Obviously, no change will be
necessary to the script if the proposed fixes are approved,
as they appear to
