Hi Lyndon,
I agree with David's comments about Heirloom shell and posh.
> Just redirect stdout to /dev/null and you can avoid using either of -s
> or -q.
In most cases. Sometimes it's used to wait until a match is seen on an
infinite stream and then quit. As if `sed /foo/q'. ;-)
Cheers, Ralp
On Wed, 11 Jun 2014 14:12:26 +0100, Ralph Corderoy writes:
>Hi Alexander,
>
>> e.g. all manpages to go in as whatever.1mh instead of whatever.1
>
>OOI, why's that? And is that a recentish change on Debian as this old
>Ubuntu doesn't do that. Does that mean co(1) is co.1rcs, etc. too?
it's requir
On Jun 11, 2014, at 3:54 PM, David Levine wrote:
> Pretty much. I test with heirloom sh and posh. So the limits
> are reasonably well defined and it's easy to detect attempts to
> go outside them. Until we need more, I'd like to stick with them.
Just redirect stdout to /dev/null and you can
Ralph wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> > ! isn't portable. Neither is egrep -q.
>
> What kind of portability are we aiming at? ! is in POSIX;
> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_
> 18_09_02
> Similarly, `grep -Eq' is too;
I should have typed "grep" instead of
Hi David,
> > I am not sure about that shell syntax; someone else will have to confirm
> > if it's portable enough.
>
> ! isn't portable. Neither is egrep -q.
What kind of portability are we aiming at? ! is in POSIX;
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_
david wrote:
> Ken wrote:
>
> > I am not sure about that shell syntax; someone else will have to confirm
> > if it's portable enough.
>
> ! isn't portable. Neither is egrep -q.
huh. shows what i know. :-)
paul
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ken wrote:
> >1. the automatic debian build daemons and build environments are very
> >stripped down, without guarantees wrt. particular locales being configured.
> >
> >it makes no sense to attempt the tests that only work if en_US.UTF-8 is
> >available, so i've made the affected tests check
Ken wrote:
> I am not sure about that shell syntax; someone else will have to confirm
> if it's portable enough.
! isn't portable. Neither is egrep -q.
David
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>1. the automatic debian build daemons and build environments are very
>stripped down, without guarantees wrt. particular locales being configured.
>
>it makes no sense to attempt the tests that only work if en_US.UTF-8 is
>available, so i've made the affected tests check that and skip if
>necessar
Hi Alexander,
> e.g. all manpages to go in as whatever.1mh instead of whatever.1
OOI, why's that? And is that a recentish change on Debian as this old
Ubuntu doesn't do that. Does that mean co(1) is co.1rcs, etc. too?
Cheers, Ralph.
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On Sun, 08 Jun 2014 10:08:12 -0400, Ken Hornstein writes:
>I am hoping that this release will be good enough to be the basis of
>the 1.6 final release, so I would encourage everyone to download it
>and try it out.
i've just packaged and uploaded the debian build of this version, and
things look pr
Ken Hornstein writes:
>
>Ken Hornstein
>on behalf of the nmh development team
Thank you very much,
Norman Shapiro
on behalf of nmh users, everywhere.
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Greetings all,
I am pleased to announce that the third release candidate for nmh 1.6
is now available. You can download it here:
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/nmh/nmh-1.6-RC3.tar.gz
(I've also included a MIME exteral-body pointer to it below, which newer
versions of nmh should b
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