> That said, I have no objection to Chet adding such a feature to Bash,
> if he can think of a sane way to do it. If you have a patch that
> implements it, it's possible he'll be willing to review it.
I don't really see the point, that'd be just bloating the code base. That task
is easy to accompl
On 9/17/14, 3:07 AM, Aharon Robbins wrote:
>> I've considered emulating it everywhere, regardless of what the OS
>> provides, but I'd get just as many complaints if I did that.
>>
>> Chet
>
> This is what gawk does. I haven't had any complaints about this,
> and once you do it that way you can cl
On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 21:02:54 +0200, Łukasz Wieczorek
wrote:
> I would like to propose a feature: a built-in/variable that returns/holds
> information about current script directory.
> This could help parsers to properly `source` files.
> Also please look how many people visited this page:
> http:
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 08:46:28AM -0400, IT1 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR wrote:
> In as much as bc only tells you which position in the string
> "0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ" it corresponds too.
>
> Useless and incomplete without a script to complete it! Thus, a bug
> worthy of being re
Greg,
I was requesting a feature in bash, due to the bugulance of bc.
You are correct in theory, however, the construction you propose (due
in no part to the fault of bash) yields an obfuscated and incomplete
answer.
In as much as bc only tells you which position in the string
"012345678
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 02:45:42PM -0400, IT1 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR wrote:
> It is rather simplistic to perform a conversion of a number from any
> base to base 10 in bash using such construction as: echo $((36#AB1CDE1))
>
> However, the greatness of the foregoing notwithstanding, it would be
Team,
First let me start out by saying I appreciate in no uncertain terms
the absolutely amazing effort that all of the folks involved with Bash
have proffered from its infancy until now. In 2 words: Thank You!
It is rather simplistic to perform a conversion of a number from any
base to b
I would like to propose a feature: a built-in/variable that returns/holds
information about current script directory.
This could help parsers to properly `source` files.
Also please look how many people visited this page:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/59895/can-a-bash-script-tell-what-director
Am Tue, 16 Sep 2014 14:44:05 -0500
schrieb Dennis Williamson :
> Does your program support using a hyphen to represent stdout (some
> do)?
>
> program -i "$i" -o -
>
It indeed does! Thanks for the tip.
Ralf
arn...@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins) writes:
> In article ,
> Chet Ramey wrote:
>>On 9/16/14, 3:00 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
>>
>>> That is one of the reasons I don't like the /dev/std{err,in,out}
>>> things. They are not portable. They do different things on different
>>> systems. I avoid them.
>>
In article ,
Chet Ramey wrote:
>On 9/16/14, 3:00 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
>
>> That is one of the reasons I don't like the /dev/std{err,in,out}
>> things. They are not portable. They do different things on different
>> systems. I avoid them.
>
>I've considered emulating it everywhere, regardless
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