Re: RFE: request for grouping mechanism to work in double brackets where otherewise illegal

2010-09-23 Thread Pierre Gaston
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 1:08 AM, Linda Walsh wrote: > > > Pierre Gaston wrote: >> >> I though I showed you how your suggestion only solves part of the problem >> in only one particular situation and in an inconsistent manner while >> introducing >> other problems but oh well > > --- >        What

Re: declare overrides errexit

2010-09-23 Thread Jan Schampera
Sascha Ziemann wrote: The following code prints "a". The second false terminates the script but the first does not. set -e declare a="a"$(false) echo $a b="b"$(false) echo $b The first operation succeeds, the second doesn't. The first operation

declare overrides errexit

2010-09-23 Thread Sascha Ziemann
Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: Machine: i686 OS: linux-gnu Compiler: gcc Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i686' -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i686-pc-linux-gnu' -DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DLOCALEDIR='/home/users/ziemann/share/locale'

a very slow problem of replacing string

2010-09-23 Thread sky
Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: Machine: x86_64 OS: linux-gnu Compiler: gcc Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='x86_64' -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' -DCONF_VENDOR='redhat' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale' -

Re: Bash style of if-then-else?

2010-09-23 Thread Ken Irving
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 04:38:42PM -0500, Michael Witten wrote: > On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 16:40, Eric Blake wrote: > > On 08/23/2010 03:29 PM, Peng Yu wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> I'm wondering if there is a widely accepted coding style of bash scripts. > >> > >> lug.fh-swf.de/vim/vim-bash/Style

Re: RFE: request for grouping mechanism to work in double brackets where otherewise illegal

2010-09-23 Thread Linda Walsh
Pierre Gaston wrote: I though I showed you how your suggestion only solves part of the problem in only one particular situation and in an inconsistent manner while introducing other problems but oh well --- What are you referring to? I thought I answered your questions. You questions

Re: Bash style of if-then-else?

2010-09-23 Thread Michael Witten
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 16:40, Eric Blake wrote: > On 08/23/2010 03:29 PM, Peng Yu wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I'm wondering if there is a widely accepted coding style of bash scripts. >> >> lug.fh-swf.de/vim/vim-bash/StyleGuideShell.en.pdf >> >> I've seen the following style. Which is one is more wide

Re: Here document and stdin?

2010-09-23 Thread Michael Witten
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 19:55, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Peng Yu wrote: >> cat file.txt | sqlite3 main.db < > you only get 1 stdin ... either via the pipe or the heredoc.  give > everything you want to the first cat and worry about sqlite only > consuming the pipe. >

Re: RFE: request for grouping mechanism to work in double brackets where otherewise illegal

2010-09-23 Thread Marc Herbert
Le 23/09/2010 02:27, Dennis Williamson wrote: > Not to mention the > tradeoffs that have to be made, in code, in design, in personal time. Speaking of time... the signal/noise ratio in this thread is so unusually low that most subscribers could probably not afford any better than skim over it (my