*OS*=debian12
*BASH_VERSION*="5.2.15(1)-release"
the script test.sh has the following content:
echo !(file.f*)
Now calling bash pretty-print result in this error:
*bash --pretty-print test.sh*
file1: line 2: syntax error near unexpected token `('
file1: line 2: `echo !(file.f*)'
On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 13:50:29 +0200, Timotei Campian wrote:
> *OS*=debian12
> *BASH_VERSION*="5.2.15(1)-release"
>
> the script test.sh has the following content:
>
> echo !(file.f*)
>
>
> Now calling bash pretty-print result in this error:
>
> *bash --pretty-print test.sh*
>
> file1: lin
A response to the question about printf supporting %n$ conversion
specifications I posted to savannah.
--- Begin Message ---
Follow-up Comment #5, sr #66 (group bash):
[comment #4 comment #4:]
> [comment #3 comment #3:]
>> * explicit positional argument selection. Some versions of printf(3)
On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 11:41 PM Chet Ramey wrote:
> A response to the question about printf supporting %n$ conversion
> specifications I posted to savannah.
>
Thanx @chet, I didn't knew this thread. The thread say ksh93 is buggy,
that's not what I observe with latest patches, but at time of the
On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 21:25:45 +0900, Koichi Murase wrote:
> $ bash --pretty-print -O extglob test.sh
Yeah, I misread the question a little bit. Sorry about that.
By the way, is this considered a bug:
hobbit:~$ bash -O extglob --pretty-print x
bash: --: invalid option
Usage: bash [GNU long
Je Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 08:29:19AM -0500, Greg Wooledge skribis:
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 21:25:45 +0900, Koichi Murase wrote:
> > $ bash --pretty-print -O extglob test.sh
>
> Yeah, I misread the question a little bit. Sorry about that.
>
> By the way, is this considered a bug:
>
>
> hobbit:~
On 2/20/25 7:25 AM, Koichi Murase wrote:
However, even if you make sure that "extglob" is enabled when the
script file is parsed in real situations as described above,
"--pretty-print" still doesn't work because it doesn't execute the
file at all. To parse and print a file with the actual set of
2025年2月20日(木) 23:37 Chet Ramey :
> > $ bash --pretty-print -O extglob test.sh
>
> You can use BASH_ENV for this. The primary reason that pretty-printing mode
> doesn't suppress execution until after any startup files are read is to
> allow a custom startup file to set the shell options you want for
2025年2月20日(木) 20:51 Timotei Campian :
> echo !(file.f*)
>
> *bash --pretty-print test.sh*
If this script file "test.sh" will be used as an independent
executable file, to make it work, you need to put "shopt -s extglob"
at the beginning of the file as Greg explained in the other reply. If
the scr
