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Hello,
I've found a weird behavior. In some circumstances, if I use TAB completion
during typing a command line, the final command is parsed differently than
if I typed it all along.
I'm on Ubuntu Lucid. The bug described below occurs only if I use the
bash-completion package (that is, I source
My history file isn't being updated as I am led to believe it ought to be.
Is there some shopt or other thingey that keeps the history unwritten?
I've googled the issue and the answer is supposed to be "history -a",
on occasion, but that isn't working:
$ ls -l $HISTFILE;history;history -a;ls -l $H
On 8/8/10 10:17 PM, mfwit...@gmail.com wrote:
> Interestingly, according to:
>
> info bash 'Basic Shell Features' 'Shell Commands' Pipelines
>
> we have:
>
> A `pipeline' is a sequence of simple commands separated
> by one of the control operators `|' or `|&'.
Sorry, the `simple' should
On 8/7/10 8:02 PM, John Kelly wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Aug 2010 17:31:08 +, John Kelly wrote:
>
>>> bash --version
>>> GNU bash, version 4.1.7(1)-release (i586-pc-interix3.5)
>
>> Backquote command substitution works, but $(...) does not.
>
>> I built it like this:
>
>>> CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686
On Fri, 06 Aug 2010 17:31:08 +, John Kelly wrote:
>>bash --version
>>GNU bash, version 4.1.7(1)-release (i586-pc-interix3.5)
>Backquote command substitution works, but $(...) does not.
>I built it like this:
>>CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686" \
>>./configure \
>>--mandir=/usr/local/man \
>>
clemens fischer wrote:
> [...]
If you received several emails/posts, I apologize. This was a problem
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my box.
clemens
I can't reproduce your problem. Does this work?:
three=$(< data)
echo three=$three
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 12:31 PM, John Kelly wrote:
>
>>bash --version
>>GNU bash, version 4.1.7(1)-release (i586-pc-interix3.5)
>
> #! /usr/local/bin/bash
>
> one=`cat data`
> echo one=$one
>
> two=$(cat data)
> e
Dennis Williamson wrote:
> while is a compound command. Only simple commands can have preceding
> variable assignments. From man bash:
Thanks. I just found out that I can get away with
> while IFS=$'\t' read a b; do echo "$a" "$b"; done
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 5:40 AM, Ralf Goertz wrote:
>> Bash Version: 4.0
>> Patch Level: 35
>> Release Status: release
>>
>> Description:
>>
>> I am used to setting variables in front of a command
>> like in
>>
>>> LANG=C man mplayer
>>
>> However, I get a "bash: syntax error near unexpected
>> tok
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