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On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:56:11 -0600 reader@×××××××.com wrote: |
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> Can you cite some actual examples of what you are talking about, with |
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> enough detail so I can see what you mean? Maybe include one or two of |
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> the workarounds you are tired of dealing with? |
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One thing I encountered is this bug |
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> echo "$(echo $';foo')" |
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bash: foo: command not found |
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introduced with some 3.1 version. |
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Then at some point the following stopped working |
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for d in `echo $locdirs | sed -e 's#/# #g'`; do |
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because bash stupidly regarded the embedded # as comment |
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delimters and complained about not finding the closing backtick. Both bugs |
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are fixed now. |
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Both cases broke scripts that I had released as part of a project and |
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therefore caused bug reports against my script. There were others but I |
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don't have the time to dig them out. I'm not trying to convince you to |
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stay away from bash, just telling you my reasons. |
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Oh, I forgot to mention that I found the zsh developers much easier to get |
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in touch with and much more responsive about bug reports. |
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But all of this is off-topic for gentoo-user, so I'll stop now. |
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MSB |
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The biggest fallacy of the SETI project is the belief |
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that TV signals are a sign of intelligence! |
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