Carl Wenrich wrote:
> I just log into the box that appears on the standard ubuntu
> startup. I enter my username and password, then the desktop comes
> up.
You are using GDM (GNOME Display Manager) then. In which case it
won't automatically start up shells as login shells. It is a quirk of
how t
> Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:
>
> > probably errornous behavior:
> >
> >
> > when using compgen to allow shortcuts (in the below example for quit and
> > exit I get a strange behavior when no input is entered and write times
> > out after 5 seconds:
> >
> > #! /bin/bash
>
Is there any way to get a handle on what matched in a case statement?
Something like this:
case "lawlesspoets" in
*poets)
echo $CASEMATCH one
;;
lawless*)
echo $CASEMATCH two
;;
esac
--
Yorick
On Sunday 11 May 2008 04:16, Chet Ramey wrote:
> pk wrote:
>> The man page says that bash builtin printf supports the standard
>> printf(1) formats. But it seems that \u is not working:
>>
>> $ /usr/bin/printf '\u212b\n'
>> Å
>> $ printf '\u212b\n'
>> \u212b
>>
>> Am I doing something wrong
