Re: Is this a bug by any chance?

2019-10-07 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 04:23:44PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote: > On Okt 07 2019, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > x=(1 2 3 4 5 -n '/*' 'hello world') > > for z in "${x[@]}"; do > > printf %s "$z" > > done > > echo > > (IFS=; printf '%s\n' "${x[*]}") Or avoid the fork(): printf %s "${x[@]}" echo

Re: Is this a bug by any chance?

2019-10-07 Thread Andreas Schwab
On Okt 07 2019, Greg Wooledge wrote: > x=(1 2 3 4 5 -n '/*' 'hello world') > for z in "${x[@]}"; do > printf %s "$z" > done > echo (IFS=; printf '%s\n' "${x[*]}") Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And

Re: Is this a bug by any chance?

2019-10-07 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 08:05:12PM +0700, pepa65 wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 05, 2019 at 06:48:35PM +, George R Goffe via Bug reports > > for the GNU Bourne Again SHell wrote: > >> I was expecting to see: > >> 12345 > > > > If you want to create a *list* and iterate over that list, one element >

Re: Is this a bug by any chance?

2019-10-07 Thread pepa65
> On Sat, Oct 05, 2019 at 06:48:35PM +, George R Goffe via Bug reports for > the GNU Bourne Again SHell wrote: >> I was expecting to see: >> 12345 > > If you want to create a *list* and iterate over that list, one element > at a time, use arrays instead of string variables. > > x=(1 2 3 4

Re: Is this a bug by any chance?

2019-10-07 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Oct 05, 2019 at 06:48:35PM +, George R Goffe via Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell wrote: > I was expecting to see: > 12345 > #!./bash -xv >  x="1 2 3 4 5" >  for z in "$x" >     do >    echo "$z" >     done >  exit 0 Not a bug. You've created a string of length 9

Re: Is this a bug by any chance?

2019-10-05 Thread
On Sat, 5 Oct 2019 18:48:35 + (UTC) George R Goffe via Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell wrote: > Hi, > > I just built the latest bash in an effort to determine if thie script shows a > bug or a ufu. Can you help me please? > > I was expecting to see: > 12345 > > Best regards

Is this a bug by any chance?

2019-10-05 Thread George R Goffe via Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell
Hi, I just built the latest bash in an effort to determine if thie script shows a bug or a ufu. Can you help me please? I was expecting to see: 12345 Best regards AND thanks for your help, George... #!./bash -xv  x="1 2 3 4 5" + x='1 2 3 4 5'  for z in "$x"     do    echo "$z"     done +