-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 02:56:01PM +0100, Clive Standbridge wrote: > > > The "declare", OTOH, is pretty Bashist. But it can be replaced by > > a simple "echo": > > True. It was just a convenient way of showing that the variable hadn't > absorbed any white space.
Understood. Please, don't get me wrong -- I'm not an anti-Bashist, by far (on the contrary, I'm a fan of Bash and some of its features, actually). Much less was I trying to criticize you, who provided that nifty script in the first place. Just trying to raise awareness about (the few) shell variation idiosyncracies I know about, to help making people's lives easier. > Besides, I was just picking up the "Bash can't do it" gauntlet. I'd > often prefer awk in such a situation (like Erik and Greg have > mentioned). Uh, oh. Bash can do quite a lot of things :-) Cheers - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlmUWSMACgkQBcgs9XrR2kbkGgCfZTPk07MqjQza0MCbS4KnWojp VokAnjyBNWqZ0Jx5DSYwxK69vm5XRfhG =juko -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
