Dave Gibson wrote:
Trial and error suggests it's something to do with new-style command
substitution. Try backticks:
local s=`stty size`
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Yes... you are right. This works... while
local s=$(stty size) does not.
That's icky! I thought they were identical, they appear not
to be...umm
Chet??? Hello? Um... why are these not the same?
local s=`stty size`
local s=$(stty size)
the latter seems to eat a param or similar when used in a function
at an input prompt...now I wonder what other side effects "$()" has over "``"
showsize()
{
local o="(${LINES}x${COLUMNS})" ; local s="${o//?/\\b}" ; printf "$o$s"
}
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Well ain't that sweet. I thought I tried that at one point, though,
and they weren't updating hmmm...proof's in the pudding, I suppose..
