Re: Documentation Update

2014-12-12 Thread David J. Haines
On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 01:59:50PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Dennis Williamson wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > I see a lot of hits in the bash_completion add-on files. Should we be > > > looking at: > > > > > > $ grep -r "shopt -s extglob" /etc/bash* > > > /etc/bash_completion.d/nmh:sh

Re: Documentation Update

2014-12-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Dennis Williamson wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > I see a lot of hits in the bash_completion add-on files. Should we be > > looking at: > > > > $ grep -r "shopt -s extglob" /etc/bash* > > /etc/bash_completion.d/nmh:shopt -s extglob > > /etc/bash_completion.d/libreoffice.sh:test $g -eq

Re: Documentation Update

2014-12-12 Thread Chet Ramey
On 12/12/14, 9:59 AM, David J. Haines wrote: > Hi all, > > When started interactively, bash sets the extglob shopt; however, that > fact seems to have been overlooked in the manpage. The behavior of bash > itself is great, but in the context of the manpage, it appears > erroneous, as it indicates

Re: Documentation Update

2014-12-12 Thread Dennis Williamson
On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Greg Wooledge wrote: > > David J. Haines wrote: > > > When started interactively, bash sets the extglob shopt; however, that > > > fact seems to have been overlooked in the manpage. > > > > This is a compile-time setting. Your vendor probably

Re: Documentation Update

2014-12-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Greg Wooledge wrote: > David J. Haines wrote: > > When started interactively, bash sets the extglob shopt; however, that > > fact seems to have been overlooked in the manpage. > > This is a compile-time setting. Your vendor probably turned this on. > > imadev:~$ bash-4.3 > imadev:~$ shopt | grep

Re: Documentation Update

2014-12-12 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 09:59:50AM -0500, David J. Haines wrote: > When started interactively, bash sets the extglob shopt; however, that > fact seems to have been overlooked in the manpage. This is a compile-time setting. Your vendor probably turned this on. imadev:~$ bash-4.3 imadev:~$ shopt |

Re: Documentation update for case in shell's builtin help

2014-02-02 Thread Chet Ramey
On 1/31/14, 7:09 PM, Peggy Russell wrote: > Release 4.3.0(1)-rc2 > > The help for "case", in the shell's builtin command "help", shows the > operator ;; but not the operators ;& and ;;&. > > help case Thanks for the report. There are a number of places where `help' is not as comprehensive as