Re: [doc] read -t and sockets, devices...

On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 10:15:06PM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote: > Stephane Chazelas wrote: > >> What about a different $? (like 2 for timeout)? > > That's reasonable. I'm thinking 128+SIGALRM. [...] That makes sense, but it's a bit of a pain to handle. read -t 10 var; ret=$? case $ret in (0) OK;;

readline does not always redraw line very well

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minimal expression

Hi all, I'm starting to use bash programming and I'd like to know if it can use minimal expressions (.*?) as in Perl. 'sed' command can use them, but I think isn't possible within bash commands (as ingrep manipulating string commands). My main concern is to use bash for file processing. Cheers.

Re: Dr. Evil typed sleep 666; rm -rf /

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to comp.unix.shell as well. Regarding how to defuse $ sleep 666; echo BOOM given only one terminal, m> Here, running bash in a xterm, this works for me: m> ^S ^C ^C ^Q For me in xterm, or even on the Debian sid tty1 conso

Re: minimal expression

On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 11:57 AM, xaviermasr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm starting to use bash programming and I'd like to know if it can use > minimal expressions (.*?) as in Perl. 'sed' command can use them, but I > think isn't possible within bash commands (as ingrep manipulati