Eric Blake wrote:
> According to Pádraig Brady on 10/21/2008 4:04 PM:
>> echo "$ver" | sed '
>> s/^\([0-9]\{,\}\)\.\([0-9]\{,\}\)[.0]*$/\1.\2.0/; #1.10 ->
>> 1.10.0
>> s/^\([0-9]\{,\}\)\.\([0-9]\{,\}\)\([a-z]\)/\1.\2.99\3/; #1.10a ->
>> 1.10.99a
>
> For what it's worth
These two switches are necessary for POSIX compatibility. I note that bash's
pwd does support them; is the intention that bash's built-in pwd, which
does, should fill this gap in a GNU system?
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According to Reuben Thomas on 10/22/2008 6:08 AM:
> These two switches are necessary for POSIX compatibility. I note that
> bash's pwd does support them; is the intention that bash's built-in pwd,
> which does, should fill this gap in a GNU system?
It
Here's a suggestion that would be a lot simpler to implement: have pwd
implement -P as a no-op, and document the lack of -L, and the conflict with
the POSIX default behaviour. I'd be happy to write a documentation patch.
That will enlighten users; if anyone cares enough about coreutils's pwd
s
Pádraig Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> latest version is attached
> (minor tweaks compared to previous).
>
>>From b9e5fe8076e7a55f152e5ffbd841310ba4994838 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: =?utf-8?q?P=C3=A1draig=20Brady?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:40:12 +0100
> Subject:
Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Good thing I tried to compile before pushing!
>> The above lacks \n\ on the "0 if OK" line.
>
> It's also lacking a close-parenthesis in the text. Also, that wording
> is a bit verbose for my taste; the verbosity
Hello,
Eric Blake is correct. I glossed over a short paragraph
in the Open Group standard doc page for 'expr' at the end
of the 'Application Usage' section where there is a statement
that permits something like '-1' to look like an option not the
integer, '-1'.
This means that the MATLAB startup
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According to Martin Knapp-Cordes on 10/22/2008 12:17 PM:
> This means that the MATLAB startup shell script is indeed
> not Open Group compliant. Obviously, no change will be
> necessary to the script if the proposed fixes are approved,
> as they appear
