Re: Parallelization of shell scripts for 'configure' etc.

2022-06-15 Thread Bruno Haible
Paul Eggert wrote: > It appears that PaSh itself isn't suitable for prime-time use. That's my current conclusion too: I tried running PaSh on - the configure script of a coreutils release, - gnulib-tool (a large shell script), and got a parse error in both cases [1]. Bruno [1] https://github

environment variable assignments are ignored by printf built-in

2010-11-27 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi, An assignment to the LANG variable appears to have no effect when executed in the same 'simple command' as the 'printf' built-in. How to reproduce: - Use bash-4.1 or bash-3.2.39. - On a system with a German (or French) locale installed. $ unset LC_ALL LC_NUMERIC $ export LANG=de_DE.UT

bash unresponsive after Ctrl-Z interrupts a backquoted command

2008-06-29 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi, This command takes about 2 seconds to complete (on a slow machine; you can make it a triple loop for a faster machine): foo=`rm -f empty; touch empty; \ for a in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ; do \ for b in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ; do \ echo g$a$b | cat; \ done; \ done |