A philosophical question regarding shell vars & shell built-in utilities

2023-10-19 Thread Robert Elz via austin-group-l at The Open Group
While generating https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1778#c6550 (note 6550 to bug 1778, mostly about field splitting with the read utility, and in particular whether reading into some vars should have unspecified effects if changes to those variables could affect the field sp

Re: A philosophical question regarding shell vars & shell built-in utilities

2023-10-21 Thread Stephane Chazelas via austin-group-l at The Open Group
2023-10-20 02:19:41 +0700, Robert Elz via austin-group-l at The Open Group: [...] > and even earlier, I started to consider what the relationship should be > between shell variables, and shell built-in utilities. [...] I remember bringing that up a few years ago here. See news://news.gmane.io/gma

Re: A philosophical question regarding shell vars & shell built-in utilities

2023-10-21 Thread Robert Elz via austin-group-l at The Open Group
Date:Sat, 21 Oct 2023 17:42:50 +0100 From:Stephane Chazelas Message-ID: <20231021164250.tfuborbgdf64e...@chazelas.org> | See | news://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.standards.posix.austin.general/12491 | from May 2016. | | (with lynx for instance) and ensuing (lon

Re: A philosophical question regarding shell vars & shell built-in utilities

2023-10-23 Thread Geoff Clare via austin-group-l at The Open Group
Robert Elz wrote, on 22 Oct 2023: > > From:Stephane Chazelas > > | See > | news://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.standards.posix.austin.general/12491 > | from May 2016. > | > | (with lynx for instance) and ensuing (long) discussion, to which > | you participated I beleive. > >

Re: A philosophical question regarding shell vars & shell built-in utilities

2023-10-23 Thread Stephane Chazelas via austin-group-l at The Open Group
2023-10-23 11:02:10 +0100, Geoff Clare via austin-group-l at The Open Group: > Robert Elz wrote, on 22 Oct 2023: [...] > > Too far back for me to remember. I can't access that with any browser > > I have installed, which doesn't include lynx or anything similar, and > > haven't done anything usen

Re: A philosophical question regarding shell vars & shell built-in utilities

2023-10-27 Thread Robert Elz via austin-group-l at The Open Group
Date:Mon, 23 Oct 2023 11:02:10 +0100 From:"Geoff Clare via austin-group-l at The Open Group" Message-ID: | do a search for "unexported" in the subject field | (which produces 114 results). I have now read all 114 - I will admit with some trepidation, as Stephan