Re: inconsistent treatment of backslash-bang

Paul Jarc wrote: > Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Chet Ramey wrote: >> >>> This is from the man page, in the QUOTING section: >> >> No idea about that. GNU project folks are well-known for deprecating man >> pages. I go by the reference manual >>

Re: Variable scoping

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 08:58:21AM +0300, Pierre Gaston wrote: [...] > With "sh" (a posix shell) no > In bash you can use the builtin "local" (or declare). [...] See http://stchaz.free.fr/locvar.sh for one way to implement local scope in a POSIX script. (those functions have not been thoroughly

set -x output of test operator is irretating

Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: Machine: i686 OS: linux-gnu Compiler: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i686' -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i686-pc-linux-gnu' -DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/loc