On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 10:35:12PM -0400, Dale R. Worley wrote:
> Back in the old, old days, there was a program named "glob" that did
> pathname expansions. So you wouldn't say
>
>cat *
>
> you'd say
>
>cat $( glob * )
Tcl still does it that way. Not with that syntax, but the
"Chris F.A. Johnson" writes:
> It would be nice if there were an option to allow * to expand sorted
> by timestamp rather than aphabetically.
Generally, a new option is not a good way to accomplish this, as an
option has global effects and can cause other parts of the code to
malfunction.
Back
It seems to me that people are avoiding both the core issue and its solution.
A standard is what allows people to write software that can be ported
without having to reassess every detail of the program. To take C as an
example, the standard defines what identifiers look like, which
identifiers
On 8/14/21 8:45 PM, Hunter Wittenborn wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>
> I was doing some testing for some additions to a rather big Bash script I'm
> working on, and the following code kept failing whenever I attempted to run
> it:
>
>
>
> "
>
> variable="hello"
>
>
>
> declare -g
On 8/14/21 7:56 PM, Keith Thompson wrote:
> Bash Version: 5.1
> Patch Level: 4
> Release Status: maint
>
> Description:
> The builtin "printf" command with the "-v" option works
> correctly, but it reports failure by setting $? to 1.
Thanks for the report.
Chet
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On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 2:00 AM George Nachman wrote:
> Defining an alias named `done` breaks parsing a for loop that does not have
> an `in word` clause.
>
alias done=""
>
Works for me:
$ set -- a b c
$ alias done='echo hi; done'
$ for x do done
hi
hi
hi
Not that I think it's a good idea to
