Re: undocumented (?) test -e behaviour with symbolic links

2016-09-30 Thread john slee
So it does. Not sure how I missed that, but I did. Oh well. Thanks :-/ John On 1 October 2016 at 14:31, Theo Buehler wrote: > On Sat, Oct 01, 2016 at 01:38:49PM +1000, john slee wrote: > > Not sure if folks are interested in this or not, but it sure caused me > some > > angst

undocumented (?) test -e behaviour with symbolic links

2016-09-30 Thread john slee
Not sure if folks are interested in this or not, but it sure caused me some angst this morning. OSX has the same behaviour and also doesn't document it. I assume it has been that way for a long, long time. My first patch. Thanks for all the cool stuff :-) Index: bin/test/test.1 ==

Re: perlre(1) and substitution evaluations

2013-12-01 Thread john slee
On 30 November 2013 21:59, Lars Nooden wrote: > perlre(1) seems to be missing information about substitution evaluations > with the /e option. The functionality is present in perl: > It is, however, already documented in perlop(1) John

Re: hide kernel threads in ps?

2011-08-31 Thread john slee
On 1 September 2011 10:21, Uwe Stuehler wrote: > If -k would become free for other uses, just for consideration: > - in FreeBSD and Solaris, -k is unused > - in NetBSD, -k specifies the sort order > - in Linux' procps, "k" specifies the sort order -k in AIX /usr/bin/ps is documented as "Lists ker

Re: grep \

2011-07-17 Thread john slee
On 18 July 2011 04:28, Jason McIntyre wrote: > can i ask why you want to support this? it is a gnu grep thing or > something? It isn't. I looked on AIX, Tru64, SCO and Solaris. The OS-provided vi supported this syntax on all four systems, and on Solaris, /usr/bin/grep supported it as well. The