Re: Bash reference manual feedback

2022-09-19 Thread Chet Ramey
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

Re: Bash reference manual feedback

2022-09-12 Thread Andrew Church
>> 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

Re: Bash reference manual feedback

2022-09-12 Thread Martin D Kealey
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 > >