On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 10:23:04PM +, Charles-Henri Gros wrote:
> But unfortunately, grep was just illustrative, I'm using another tool
> that takes a regex but has no "-F" option
1. The questioner's first description of the problem/question will be
misleading.
9. All examples given by the
Date:Wed, 22 May 2019 22:23:04 +
From:Charles-Henri Gros
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| But unfortunately, grep was just illustrative, I'm using another tool
| that takes a regex but has no "-F" option (though admittedly with some
| effort I could add one, I wrote the tool
On 5/22/19 3:13 PM, Robert Elz wrote:
> Date:Wed, 22 May 2019 17:34:22 +
> From:Charles-Henri Gros
> Message-ID:
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> | The problem I'm trying to solve is to iterate over regex-escaped file
> | names obtained from a "find" command. I don't know how to make t
Date:Wed, 22 May 2019 17:34:22 +
From:Charles-Henri Gros
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| The problem I'm trying to solve is to iterate over regex-escaped file
| names obtained from a "find" command. I don't know how to make this
| work. It works with other versions of bash
On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 05:34:22PM +, Charles-Henri Gros wrote:
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> The problem I'm trying to solve is to iterate over regex-escaped file
> names obtained from a "find" command. I don't know how to make this
> work. It works with other versions of bash and with other shells.
>
> The origin
On Mai 22 2019, Charles-Henri Gros wrote:
> The file name is the regex (argument to "-e"), not the file "grep"
> reads. I want to check that some text file contains a reference to a file.
>
> But it looks like this would work:
>
> for file in $(find ...); do grep -e "$(echo -n "$file" | sed 's/\$
On 5/22/19 3:14 PM, Charles-Henri Gros wrote:
> That's what I find a bit surprising (but shells are complicated, so
> maybe this is right. All I know is that the code used to work). I didn't
> think glob expansions applied to command expansions.
Command substitution is one of the word expansions,
On 5/22/19 10:47 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 05:34:22PM +, Charles-Henri Gros wrote:
>> On 5/22/19 5:43 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>>> Standard disclaimers apply. Stop using unquoted variables and these
>>> bugs will stop affecting you. Nevertheless, Chet may want to take
On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 07:14:44PM +, Charles-Henri Gros wrote:
> The file name is the regex (argument to "-e"), not the file "grep"
> reads. I want to check that some text file contains a reference to a file.
>
> But it looks like this would work:
>
> for file in $(find ...); do grep -e "$(e
On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 05:34:22PM +, Charles-Henri Gros wrote:
> On 5/22/19 5:43 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > Standard disclaimers apply. Stop using unquoted variables and these
> > bugs will stop affecting you. Nevertheless, Chet may want to take a
> > peek.
>
> What unquoted variables? Ar
On 5/22/19 5:43 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 05:25:43PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
>> Date:Tue, 21 May 2019 22:11:20 +
>> From:Charles-Henri Gros
>> Message-ID:
>>
>>
>> | The existence or not of the file should not have any effect.
>>
>> Bu
On 5/22/19 9:33 AM, Robert Elz wrote:
> Date:Wed, 22 May 2019 08:43:00 -0400
> From:Greg Wooledge
> Message-ID: <20190522124300.gz1...@eeg.ccf.org>
>
> | It seems to be unique to bash 5. If it's a bug fix, then I'm not
> | understanding the rationale. Backslashe
Date:Wed, 22 May 2019 08:43:00 -0400
From:Greg Wooledge
Message-ID: <20190522124300.gz1...@eeg.ccf.org>
| It seems to be unique to bash 5. If it's a bug fix, then I'm not
| understanding the rationale. Backslashes shouldn't be consumed during
| glob expansion.
On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 05:25:43PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
> Date:Tue, 21 May 2019 22:11:20 +
> From:Charles-Henri Gros
> Message-ID:
>
>
> | The existence or not of the file should not have any effect.
>
> But it does, and is intended to. If the mattern m
Date:Tue, 21 May 2019 22:11:20 +
From:Charles-Henri Gros
Message-ID:
| The existence or not of the file should not have any effect.
But it does, and is intended to. If the mattern matches a file
(when patyhname expanded as a result of the unquoted command s
output: Linux d-us6a-ubuntu-03 5.0.0-13-generic #14-Ubuntu SMP Mon
Apr 15 14:59:14 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Machine Type: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Bash Version: 5.0
Patch Level: 3
Release Status: release
Description:
Backslash mysteriously disappears in command expansion when
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