Re: UTF-8 regression in bash version 4.2

2012-03-19 Thread Andreas Schwab
Chet Ramey writes: > --- 228,239 > *r++ = '\''; > > ! s = str; > ! slen = strlen (str); slen isn't used subsequently. > *** > *** 267,270 > --- 290,324 > } > > + #if defined (HANDLE_MULTIBYTE) > + int > + ansic_wshouldquote (string) > + const char

Re: UTF-8 regression in bash version 4.2

2012-03-19 Thread Chet Ramey
On 3/18/12 1:26 PM, dennis.birkh...@rwth-aachen.de wrote: > Bash Version: 4.2 > Patch Level: 24 > Release Status: release > > Description: > Some UTF-8 multibyte characters are not printed correctly but UTF-8 > generally works as the "ä" in "März" (displayed via ls) works. > > Repeat-By

Re: Saving command history for non-interactive shell

2012-03-19 Thread Chet Ramey
On 3/19/12 8:39 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 06:15:35PM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote: >> Turn on history with `set -o history' and set HISTFILE and HISTSIZE as you >> like. You can probably set some of the right variables in .ssh/environment >> and set BASH_ENV to a file that wil

Re: compgen is slow for large numbers of options

2012-03-19 Thread Chet Ramey
On 3/19/12 6:13 PM, Geir Hauge wrote: > 2012/3/19 Chet Ramey : >> I will look at optimizing that function, but it's always going to take time >> to plow through 300K when you have to split it into words. (There's not >> actually any word splitting of consequence happening with your second >> examp

Re: compgen is slow for large numbers of options

2012-03-19 Thread Geir Hauge
2012/3/19 Chet Ramey : > I will look at optimizing that function, but it's always going to take time > to plow through 300K when you have to split it into words.  (There's not > actually any word splitting of consequence happening with your second > example using the pipeline.) Letting compgen do

Re: Determine if a file is a valid Bash script

2012-03-19 Thread Eric Blake
On 03/19/2012 02:15 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > On 03/19/2012 08:54 PM, Lane Schwartz wrote: >> Hi, >> >> If I have a file that contains a bash script, is there any >> straightforward way of determining whether that script can be parsed >> successfully as a Bash script, without actually running

Re: compgen is slow for large numbers of options

2012-03-19 Thread Chet Ramey
On 3/15/12 3:38 PM, Richard Neill wrote: > Dear Bob, > > Thanks for your explanation. I do understand what is going on and why. But > my point was that compgen has an implicit internal "grep" that is much less > efficient than actual grep. Why is the performance of compgen's > sorting/filtering al

Re: compgen is slow for large numbers of options

2012-03-19 Thread Chet Ramey
On 3/14/12 1:44 PM, Richard Neill wrote: > Dear All, > > I don't know for certain if this is a bug per se, but I think > "compgen -W" is much slower than it "should" be in the case of a large > (1+) number of options. > > For example (on a fast i7 2700 CPU), I measure: > > compgen -W "`seq 1

Re: Determine if a file is a valid Bash script

2012-03-19 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 03/19/2012 08:54 PM, Lane Schwartz wrote: > Hi, > > If I have a file that contains a bash script, is there any > straightforward way of determining whether that script can be parsed > successfully as a Bash script, without actually running the file? > Yes: the "-n" option. Simple examples:

Determine if a file is a valid Bash script

2012-03-19 Thread Lane Schwartz
Hi, If I have a file that contains a bash script, is there any straightforward way of determining whether that script can be parsed successfully as a Bash script, without actually running the file? Here's the context. There is another tool (a workflow management utility) which allows users to pro

Bug in nested parameter expansion.

2012-03-19 Thread Mark Edgar
I've boiled the problem down to this:  A=  B=q  echo "x${A+${B#q*}}x" | sed -nel Excluding the newline, the output I expect is "xx", but instead there is a delete character \177 between the two "x" characters. After much experimenting, the important triggers are: * The entire ${A...} substituti

Re: Saving command history for non-interactive shell

2012-03-19 Thread dethrophes
Am 19.03.2012 13:39, schrieb Greg Wooledge: On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 06:15:35PM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote: There is nothing stopping you from using history in a non-interactive shell -- it's just not enabled by default. Turn on history with `set -o history' and set HISTFILE and HISTSIZE as you lik

Re: Saving command history for non-interactive shell

2012-03-19 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 06:15:35PM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote: > There is nothing stopping you from using history in a non-interactive > shell -- it's just not enabled by default. > > Turn on history with `set -o history' and set HISTFILE and HISTSIZE as you > like. You can probably set some of the