On 9/11/22 11:30 AM, David Apps wrote:
I hope that you are well.
Thank you for your work on this great software.
I have some feedback about the document at:
http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html
the Bash shell (version 5.1, 21 December 2020).
Thanks for your careful reading of th
>> 9. It is probably unhelpful to use the "’" character here.
>
>You have inadvertently stated the entire point of this section: yes, they
>are an unhelpful historical anomaly and should not be used in scripts. Of
>course this advisory has to actually show the characters that it's telling
>you to a
I believe you are correct on all points except this one:
On Mon, 12 Sept 2022 at 01:30, David Apps wrote:
> h3 6.12 Shell Compatibility Mode
>
> > * the shell does not print a warning message if an attempt is made to
> > use a quoted compound assignment as an argument to declare (declare -a
> >