On Mon, May 2, 2022 at 9:53 AM Chet Ramey wrote:
> My preference is a portable memfd_create(); I think I could get around
> its limitations.
I'm sure you can google with the best of them, but I did come across
this project
which did some work trying to create a portable version of memfd_create(),
On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 11:52 AM Robert E. Griffith wrote:
> Question 3: what is the best practice for maintaining loadable builtins?
> Can anyone suggest an existing loadable builtin project that I could
> model mine after?
I don't have too much advice on best practices, but I did write a blog p
On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 7:59 AM Frank Heckenbach
wrote:
> This script writes "foo" to bar rather than stdout as I'd expect.
>
> It's triggered by the "if" statement (which doesn't even cause
> running in a subshell, so it's not that).
>
> #!/bin/bash
> set -e
> trap 'echo foo' 0
> #false > bar #
On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 2:24 AM Přemysl Šťastný wrote:
>
> Thanks for advice. How do you use it in more detail please?
You can feed shfmt an individual file to format, it defaults to
using tabs for indentation:
$ shfmt ~/test.sh
#!/bin/bash
cat <<-EOF
hello!
EOF
Or you can instru
> Will ksh93 version ever get to upstream? This ugly 'bug' is here for
> decades and really irritates me and many people, who ever used shell for
> larger scripting and don't like to use tabs.
I used to always prefer spaces, until I switched to auto formatting all my Bash
scripts with shfmt[1]. It
On Sun, Jun 6, 2021 at 10:28 AM Greg Wooledge wrote:
> Out of these 5 choices, the one that seems to suck the *least*, according
> to observed usage patterns in current written and spoken English, is
> "they".
I agree with Greg, *they* has become the dominant gender neutral pronoun in
English. I
On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 4:18 PM Chet Ramey wrote:
> If you look at
>
> a=( k1 v1 k2 v2 k3 v3)
>
> as more or less syntactic sugar for
>
> a=( [k1]=v1 [k2]=v2 [k3]=v3 )
>
> it's reasonable that
>
> a=( k1 v1 k2 )
>
> is equivalent to
>
> a=( [k1]=v1 [k2]= ). And that's what bash does.
This equival
I would welcome this change, I struggled today with trying to
increment an associative array
in an arithmetic context. I think this change would make for much
better ergonomics when
working with associative arrays. Yours kindly, Jesse Hathaway
On Sat, Jan 23, 2021 at 11:17 PM William Park wrote:
> I'm running out of special characters, and I don't want another operator
> or syntax that I can't remember 2 weeks from now. :-) That's my main
> issue with Zsh.
I concur, I find the expansion operators devilishly hard to remember!
On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 5:40 AM Andreas Schwab wrote:
> The reason for using a process substitution is so that the loop can set
> shell variables.
Would using lastpipe be an option instead?
lastpipe
If set, and job control is not active, the shell runs
> An easy way to reproduce it is to launch a script with: " moo() { echo
> "ok";}; moo >(true)", you'll see an "ok" in your bash terminal and a
> subprocess will be blocked in an open syscall. The fact that we are seeing
> this "ok" means that the output of the parent process was never redirected t
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