Just a few obsevations on side issues...
Bob Proulx writes:
Rodolfo Borges wrote:
cat EOF ~/.bashrc
function mv() {
local target=${!#}
local dir
if [[ $target =~ '/$' ]]; then
dir=$target
else
dir=$(dirname $target)
fi
test -d $dir ||
Stefano Lattarini stefano.lattar...@gmail.com writes:
Just a few obsevations on side issues...
Bob Proulx writes:
Rodolfo Borges wrote:
cat EOF ~/.bashrc
function mv() {
local target=${!#}
local dir
if [[ $target =~ '/$' ]]; then
dir=$target
else
Stefano Lattarini wrote:
Just a few obsevations on side issues...
Bob Proulx writes:
Rodolfo Borges wrote:
cat EOF ~/.bashrc
function mv() {
local target=${!#}
local dir
if [[ $target =~ '/$' ]]; then
dir=$target
else
dir=$(dirname $target)
a g wrote:
thanks for everyone's help. I agree this can be closed, but not for the
reasons mentioned (though I appreciate them and they gave me the info I
needed to find the answer:
osdir.com/ml/lib.gnulib.bugs/2005-04/msg00027.html). Off to try emacs'
regex.c instead.
It would be nice if
Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net writes:
Because of expr? Its use of regexp is tightly specified by POSIX,
so we cannot change it without a very good reason.
In the OP's use of regexp POSIX defines nothing.
Andreas.
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Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net writes:
Using env is the most portable, at the expense
of a fork (compared to bash's command):
Note that command is also part of the POSIX shell.
Andreas.
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At Monday 26 April 2010, Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net wrote:
Using env is the most portable, at the expense
of a fork (compared to bash's command):
env mv $@
Generally, this is true. But Rodolfo was assuming bash as his shell
anyway, and in this case the use of well-estabilished bash
At Monday 26 April 2010, Andreas Schwab sch...@linux-m68k.org wrote:
I think that's needed because otherwise the shell function would
end up calling itself recursively, since it's named `mv' too.
You use command mv for that.
Good point, I forgot about that. And it works for shell
