On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 5:28 PM, Martijn Dekker wrote:
> Am I missing something? I thought they did exactly the same thing in
> bash. If I'm not wrong about that, then as far as bash is concerned,
> they are in fact synonyms and functionally equivalent.
Yes declare and typeset are identical in ba
Dan Douglas schreef op 20-02-16 om 21:55:
> "typeset" vs. "declare" isn't always a straightforward decision
> depending on one's requirements. Bash's "typeset" has always
> been there for portability despite being a synonym for "declare",
> so I think just calling it a synonym would be counterprodu
On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 2:55 PM, Dan Douglas wrote:
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.standards.posix.austin.general/8371/focus=8377
I meant to post Chet's reply to my question:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.standards.posix.austin.general/8482
But that whole thread has some good info.
On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 4:36 PM, Martijn Dekker wrote:
> In 'help typeset', the 'typeset' builtin is called obsolete and has been
> so since at least bash 2.05b (2002) or possibly earlier. Perhaps it's
> time to just call it a synonym, as indeed the texinfo documentation does.
>
> diff -ur bash-4.
Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
Machine: x86_64
OS: linux-gnu
Compiler: gcc
Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='x86_64'
-DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu'
-DCONF_VENDOR='unknown' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/local
On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 9:20 AM, Stephane Chazelas
wrote:
> 2016-02-08 09:00:09 -0500, Chet Ramey:
>> On 2/8/16 2:47 AM, Linda Walsh wrote:
>> > When you are doing a var expansion using the
>> > replacement format ${VAR//./.}, is there some way to
>> > put parens around some part of the expression
