Date:Sat, 18 Aug 2018 08:00:40 -0500
From:"J. Lewis Muir"
Message-ID: <20180818130040.ga1...@tuna.imca.aps.anl.gov>
| I see your point. Yes, this seems too long. Maybe it would be more
| appropriate in the POSIX sh shell book you were planning to write. :-)
Yea
On 08/18, Robert Elz wrote:
> Does this actually help, or is all this text just making it less likely that
> the average script writer will ever read any of it?
I see your point. Yes, this seems too long. Maybe it would be more
appropriate in the POSIX sh shell book you were planning to write.
Date:Fri, 17 Aug 2018 11:37:18 -0500
From:"J. Lewis Muir"
Message-ID: <20180817163717.ga21...@tuna.imca.aps.anl.gov>
| I think this sentence would read better if it used the same verb tense
Thanks, that is the kind of improvement I was looking for (since I don't
of
On 08/17, Robert Elz wrote:
> I'd appreciate any suggestions for improvements, particularly ways
> to convey the information included in a more succinct form.
>
> This is the (new) text I currently have ...
>
> Note that if a command substitution includes commands to be run in the
> bac
Some (or many) of you may be aware (and if not, please read the PR)
that the code added in 2016 to deal with PR bin/48875 was never really
correct - it just had not, until recently, caused anyone any problems
so it had just been sitting there, doing its thing, and bothering no-one
really, until jus
