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Re: hash -l with empty hash table prints to stdout

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On 6/16/20 9:56 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> It's not a warning; there's nothing to warn about. An empty hash table is
> not an exceptional condition. It's simply informational.

Then would you say it is debug info?

Why is stderr not a good place for this? hash -l documents that its
output may be reused as input, which assumption breaks down if the hash
table is empty.

If "send the non-eval'able diagnostic output to stderr, separate from
the eval'able output stream" isn't a convincing argument to you, then
perhaps it could be prefixed with a "#" such that eval'ing it would skip
that line?

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Eli Schwartz
Arch Linux Bug Wrangler and Trusted User

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