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An interesting little quirk - difference between "bash" and "dash" (Lin

By Kenny McCormack on Sun Jan 5 12:04:59 2025

Latest reply by Janis Papanagnou on Mon Jan 6 01:23:11 2025
De Morgan's laws (Was: syntax of "find" - am I losing my mind?)

By Kenny McCormack on Sat Dec 28 10:20:11 2024

Latest reply by Salvador Mirzo on Tue Dec 31 23:28:31 2024
syntax of "find" - am I losing my mind?

By Kenny McCormack on Fri Dec 27 20:08:53 2024

Latest reply by Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Sat Dec 28 02:04:51 2024
Arguing with a four-year-old (Was: a sed question)

By Kenny McCormack on Tue Dec 24 23:53:38 2024

Latest reply by Kenny McCormack on Tue Dec 24 23:53:38 2024
Re: a sed question

By John-Paul Stewart on Wed Dec 18 15:12:11 2024

Latest reply by Kaz Kylheku on Tue Dec 24 21:46:56 2024
Dealing with four-year-olds... (Was: a sed question)

By Kenny McCormack on Tue Dec 24 12:58:42 2024

Latest reply by Kenny McCormack on Tue Dec 24 12:58:42 2024
How to solve The Miracle (was Re: a sed question)

By Janis Papanagnou on Mon Dec 23 21:09:12 2024

Latest reply by Janis Papanagnou on Mon Dec 23 21:09:12 2024
sed... (Was: a sed question)

By Kenny McCormack on Sat Dec 21 03:36:11 2024

Latest reply by Kaz Kylheku on Sun Dec 22 21:22:18 2024
Re: sed...

By Janis Papanagnou on Sun Dec 22 00:33:58 2024

Latest reply by Janis Papanagnou on Sun Dec 22 00:33:58 2024
Font support for utf8

By Richard Harnden on Fri Dec 20 13:55:18 2024

Latest reply by Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Fri Dec 20 20:50:04 2024
Checking for right # of args in a shell script (Was: a sed question)

By Kenny McCormack on Fri Dec 20 15:11:07 2024

Latest reply by Kenny McCormack on Fri Dec 20 17:43:34 2024
About the "nameref" feature in bash...

By Kenny McCormack on Sun Dec 8 12:51:05 2024

Latest reply by Janis Papanagnou on Mon Dec 9 16:00:24 2024
Splitting in shell (bash)

By Kenny McCormack on Sat Nov 9 16:19:17 2024

Latest reply by Kenny McCormack on Mon Dec 9 12:32:41 2024
Whipping Up A New Shell =?UTF-8?B?4oCT?= Lash#Cat9

By Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Sat Nov 23 02:23:54 2024

Latest reply by Lars Poulsen on Thu Dec 5 06:59:43 2024
Re: Different variable assignments

By Janis Papanagnou on Sat Oct 12 13:08:48 2024

Latest reply by Lem Novantotto on Sat Nov 16 00:07:54 2024
Re: Using << and an output pipe together in shell (bash)

By Helmut Waitzmann on Sun Nov 3 21:37:07 2024

Latest reply by Lem Novantotto on Fri Nov 1 15:39:37 2024
Re: [ksh93u+m] Performance warning message

By Janis Papanagnou on Mon Oct 28 01:21:17 2024

Latest reply by Janis Papanagnou on Sun Nov 3 19:59:04 2024
Re: Subjective "valuations" are all we have (Was: coprocs - again (Was:

By Janis Papanagnou on Sat Oct 26 16:20:34 2024

Latest reply by Kenny McCormack on Fri Oct 25 12:54:56 2024
Subjective "valuations" are all we have (Was: coprocs - again (Was: Dif

By Kenny McCormack on Fri Oct 25 08:10:11 2024

Latest reply by Kenny McCormack on Fri Oct 25 08:10:11 2024
coproc or whatever in bash and ksh (Was: Different variable assignments

By Kenny McCormack on Sat Oct 19 13:35:59 2024

Latest reply by Kenny McCormack on Fri Oct 25 07:06:23 2024
coprocs in bash & ksh (Was: Different variable assignments)

By Kenny McCormack on Sat Oct 19 13:39:14 2024

Latest reply by Janis Papanagnou on Sat Oct 19 15:57:01 2024
Re: (bash) How (really!) does the "current job" get determined?

By Kenny McCormack on Sat Oct 5 15:02:45 2024

Latest reply by Kaz Kylheku on Sat Oct 5 02:23:09 2024
pid ranges (Was: (bash) How (really!) does the "current job" get determ

By Kenny McCormack on Sat Oct 5 17:13:02 2024

Latest reply by Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Mon Oct 7 20:23:17 2024
Re: [OT] PIDs for Linux threads (was Re: pid ranges)

By Kenny McCormack on Mon Oct 7 16:41:49 2024

Latest reply by Janis Papanagnou on Mon Oct 7 18:29:00 2024
bash/ksh differences (fg and other job control commands) (Was: (bash) H

By Kenny McCormack on Mon Oct 7 13:19:17 2024

Latest reply by Janis Papanagnou on Mon Oct 7 18:12:40 2024
Expand your mind (Was: (bash) How (really!) does the "current job" get

By Kenny McCormack on Fri Oct 4 15:57:04 2024

Latest reply by Kaz Kylheku on Sat Oct 5 02:17:21 2024
Re: [ksh] Show command number in shell prompt

By hymie! on Tue Sep 24 12:59:06 2024

Latest reply by Christian Weisgerber on Thu Sep 26 15:32:48 2024
What? (Was: bash prompt question)

By Kenny McCormack on Tue Sep 24 08:51:46 2024

Latest reply by Damien Wyart on Wed Sep 25 21:41:16 2024
Re: bash prompt question

By Brian Patrie on Mon Sep 23 03:07:07 2024

Latest reply by Gilmeh Serda on Thu Sep 19 18:28:05 2024
Another 'What's the diff Q" (LDo will like this)

By Kenny McCormack on Tue Sep 17 05:37:25 2024

Latest reply by Kaz Kylheku on Wed Sep 18 01:47:41 2024
nohup Versus setsid

By Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Thu Sep 12 04:23:42 2024

Latest reply by Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Fri Sep 13 22:32:58 2024
Watch Out For Globbing

By Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Mon Aug 26 22:31:50 2024

Latest reply by Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Mon Aug 26 22:31:50 2024
=?UTF-8?B?4oCcd2hv4oCdIG9yIOKAnHfigJ0/?=

By Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Mon Aug 26 22:23:39 2024

Latest reply by Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Mon Aug 26 22:23:39 2024
(bash) Does the EXIT trap fire if/when bash is exited via a signal?

By Kenny McCormack on Wed Aug 21 03:19:39 2024

Latest reply by Helmut Waitzmann on Fri Aug 23 08:31:36 2024
Re: using Unicode codepoints in a bash script

By Qruqs on Sun Aug 18 08:04:28 2024

Latest reply by Qruqs on Sun Aug 18 08:04:28 2024
IFS=$'\n'

By Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Tue Aug 13 08:26:41 2024

Latest reply by Geoff Clare on Thu Aug 15 13:53:04 2024
JSON And The Command Line

By Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Sun Aug 11 04:50:44 2024

Latest reply by Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Sun Aug 11 04:50:44 2024
Globbing versus regular expressions

By Axel Reichert on Sun Jul 21 09:01:18 2024

Latest reply by Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Sat Aug 10 00:33:30 2024
Re: Basic ps Tips

By Rene Kita on Sat Aug 3 15:51:12 2024

Latest reply by Rene Kita on Sat Aug 3 07:08:50 2024
[ANN] ksh 93u+m/1.0.10

By Martijn Dekker on Fri Aug 2 00:38:41 2024

Latest reply by Martijn Dekker on Fri Aug 2 00:38:41 2024
bash aesthetics question: special characters in reg exp in [[ ... =~~ .

By Kenny McCormack on Mon Jul 22 21:59:11 2024

Latest reply by Ben Bacarisse on Wed Jul 24 22:28:32 2024
[ksh93] defunct 'fc' command?

By Janis Papanagnou on Mon Jul 1 11:03:17 2024

Latest reply by Janis Papanagnou on Tue Jul 2 18:02:19 2024
[ksh93u+m] Interactive subshell expansion disfunctional

By Janis Papanagnou on Tue May 21 18:57:47 2024

Latest reply by Janis Papanagnou on Tue Jul 2 10:52:39 2024
[ANN] ksh 93u+m/1.0.9

By Martijn Dekker on Tue Jul 2 04:20:50 2024

Latest reply by Martijn Dekker on Tue Jul 2 04:20:50 2024
TIL: Korn shell Ctrl-O: submit and stay in history.

By Kaz Kylheku on Mon Jul 1 03:42:59 2024

Latest reply by Janis Papanagnou on Mon Jul 1 10:16:01 2024
Numerically sorted arguments (in shell)

By Janis Papanagnou on Fri Jun 14 09:31:18 2024

Latest reply by Janis Papanagnou on Mon Jun 24 17:22:00 2024
create variables in a loop?

By Dr Eberhard W Lisse on Wed May 29 12:57:06 2024

Latest reply by Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Thu May 30 01:47:58 2024
Cleaning up background processes

By Christian Weisgerber on Sun May 5 19:06:22 2024

Latest reply by Martijn Dekker on Sun May 19 20:34:41 2024
ksh93: pipelines vs. job control

By Christian Weisgerber on Mon May 13 14:35:32 2024

Latest reply by Martijn Dekker on Sun May 19 20:21:06 2024
When/why does the shell (bash) (sometimes) not re-cycle job IDs?

By Kenny McCormack on Sat May 11 19:47:25 2024

Latest reply by Christian Weisgerber on Mon May 13 10:42:08 2024
Which shell and how to get started handling arguments

By Janis Papanagnou on Mon Apr 15 16:03:34 2024

Latest reply by Christian Weisgerber on Wed Apr 17 14:23:35 2024
on Perl

By Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Wed Apr 17 06:44:56 2024

Latest reply by David Brown on Wed Apr 17 11:27:30 2024
What does @{FOOBAR@a} mean? (bash)

By John-Paul Stewart on Sat Apr 13 16:54:42 2024

Latest reply by Lew Pitcher on Sun Apr 14 14:11:06 2024
Basta: protecting $_ variable.

By Kaz Kylheku on Wed Apr 10 05:29:34 2024

Latest reply by Kaz Kylheku on Wed Apr 10 13:26:47 2024
Phrases that should be banned on Usenet (Was: Command Languages Ver

By Mister Johnson on Wed Apr 10 10:37:52 2024

Latest reply by Mister Johnson on Wed Apr 10 10:37:52 2024
TEST

By Hubertus A. Haniel on Fri Apr 5 18:10:22 2024

Latest reply by Hubertus A. Haniel on Fri Apr 5 19:05:01 2024
Too much? (Was: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages)

By Mister Johnson on Thu Apr 4 21:15:51 2024

Latest reply by Mister Johnson on Thu Apr 4 21:15:51 2024
[ANN] ksh 93u+m/1.0.8

By Buzz McCool on Thu Apr 4 11:10:17 2024

Latest reply by Buzz McCool on Thu Apr 4 11:10:17 2024
Command Languages Versus Programming Languages

By Janis Papanagnou on Fri Mar 29 10:37:22 2024

Latest reply by Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Sat Mar 30 05:54:31 2024
how to capture only 7 or 8 in /etc/redhat-release

By Cyrille Lefevre on Fri Mar 29 03:10:11 2024

Latest reply by Cyrille Lefevre on Fri Mar 29 03:10:11 2024
Shell providers?

By Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Mon Mar 25 02:36:38 2024

Latest reply by Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Mon Mar 25 21:16:58 2024
[ksh93u+m] alarm timer function

By Arti F. Idiot on Mon Mar 18 11:10:14 2024

Latest reply by Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Mon Mar 25 04:49:06 2024
"sed" question

By Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Mon Mar 25 02:31:56 2024

Latest reply by Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Mon Mar 25 02:31:56 2024
Over-Elaborate Shell Scripting

By Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Sat Mar 23 05:38:00 2024

Latest reply by Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Sun Mar 24 21:43:21 2024