Re: [PATCH] [MAN] Document optional open parenthesis for case patterns.

2010-11-28 Thread Herbert Xu
On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 02:42:19AM +, Philipp Weis wrote: > Hi, > > while inspecting some dash scripts on my system, I was surprised to > see that some of them use an open parenthesis at the beginning of case > patterns while that's not mentioned in the manpage. Dash currently is > fine with a

Re: [PATCH] [MAN] Document optional open parenthesis for case patterns.

2010-09-10 Thread Sven Mascheck
On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 10:42:19PM -0400, Philipp Weis wrote: > while inspecting some dash scripts on my system, I was surprised to > see that some of them use an open parenthesis at the beginning of case > patterns while that's not mentioned in the manpage. Dash currently is > fine with and witho

[PATCH] [MAN] Document optional open parenthesis for case patterns.

2010-09-07 Thread Philipp Weis
Hi, while inspecting some dash scripts on my system, I was surprised to see that some of them use an open parenthesis at the beginning of case patterns while that's not mentioned in the manpage. Dash currently is fine with and without that parenthesis (parser.c:413). The attached patch documents t