Path: csiph.com!xmission!news.snarked.org!news.linkpendium.com!news.linkpendium.com!panix!usenet.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: Chet Ramey Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: Re: Code addition to BASH Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 16:14:52 -0500 Lines: 13 Approved: bug-bash@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: chet.ramey@case.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: lists.gnu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1579641298 27978 209.51.188.17 (21 Jan 2020 21:14:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu Cc: chet.ramey@case.edu, bug-bash@gnu.org To: William Theisen Envelope-to: bug-bash@gnu.org DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=case.edu; s=smtp-primary; t=1579641293; bh=pzzh2Oo26tDKCZ3T1ZFVWvmP2gD2+a1vJXBYr9t4aWQ=; h=Reply-To:Cc:Subject:To:References:From:Message-ID:Date: MIME-Version:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=YNTjQuyHExERoksYeasadyYvMsQhV7xCw7pjI84q0+cXWgLQcYm15kS+dcfJtL3mFl t1/J8+xH9Cv/oN71dDkuy5FHTwDI2myTBLc2O/OeE+fKkp6FQa9MT74rPQEn5266Y/h mWkNTU3EJUo8E7i0XjosgHjj4v8EGuxkm8XKbkqGCNCaAbBDfViFFLI/4HMuRjsyjCL yN7V2RICRwEVjNmIHr0NOj2OvlzcbYWP74sMd+XGH/SFWK8a9L9eXzmrdp5yaT6H440 lhjQfnT487ufcpNlQJIrVQUlOePphUtcOOEcd3qOlWXurEVKvAJsZG0EDZXFMkSuqTh PDzrJhjg== DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=case.edu; s=smtp-primary; t=1579641292; bh=kVLeF89INLXKxPATCC8xhIgQEdK5CsMMKlI8LqZri7Y=; h=Reply-To:Cc:Subject:To:References:From:Message-ID:Date: MIME-Version:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=E0NY54vnD2F91BdcDW/iG6pbSxRknZD3VkoRGT3mBteH60qdV+S1/a+rb/ohiDBP/l TaiOAK/ptB/sUXDrH0dRe+TrUJMJ5Zm+IlQjyJxiYqlNK5AQLF6YFOr1BCksiAJnJev lGao8ATtltQWYR2NPbrfvWi8/T4fyt/AkSoVkXF28EY4fYze7rtOQ640326QObQzs7J 88XQ7HR6WxotPIrbOWOu0vim7jqgFXzOjlCU4Vk9fdPX8vPd5woMxD+njUdni7W9zEr Q+a4dNg5Dz6Z0tYYb45yw7k1sEX0bLNYPKvspUnXg9w3EAtlIMBpC2aTi1FP/UPgvBk omad7xiQ== Autocrypt: addr=chet.ramey@case.edu; prefer-encrypt=mutual; keydata= mQGiBEEOsGwRBACFa0A1oa71HSZLWxAx0svXzhOZNQZOzqHmSuGOG92jIpQpr8DpvgRh40Yp AwdcXb8QG1J5yGAKeevNE1zCFaA725vGSdHUyypHouV0xoWwukYO6qlyyX+2BZU+okBUqoWQ koWxiYaCSfzB2Ln7pmdys1fJhcgBKf3VjWCjd2XJTwCgoFJOwyBFJdugjfwjSoRSwDOIMf0D /iQKqlWhIO1LGpMrGX0il0/x4zj0NAcSwAk7LaPZbN4UPjn5pqGEHBlf1+xDDQCkAoZ/VqES GZragl4VqJfxBr29Ag0UDvNbUbXoxQsARdero1M8GiAIRc50hj7HXFoERwenbNDJL86GPLAQ OTGOCa4W2o29nFfFjQrsrrYHzVtyA/9oyKvTeEMJ7NA3VJdWcmn7gOu0FxEmSNhSoV1T4vP2 1Wf7f5niCCRKQLNyUy0wEApQi4tSysdz+AbgAc0b/bHYVzIf2uO2lIEZQNNt+3g2bmXgloWm W5fsm/di50Gm1l1Na63d3RZ00SeFQos6WEwLUHEB0yp6KXluXLLIZitEJLQgQ2hldCBSYW1l eSA8Y2hldC5yYW1leUBjYXNlLmVkdT6IYQQTEQIAIQIbAwYLCQgHAwIDFQIDAxYCAQIeAQIX gAUCRX3FIgIZAQAKCRC7WGnwZOp0q069AKCNDRn+zzN/AHbaynls/Lvq1kH/RQCgkLvF8bDs maUHSxSIPqzlGuKWDxa5AQ0EQQ6wbxAEAJCukwDigRDPhAuI+lf+6P64lWanIFOXIndqhvU1 3cDbQ/Wt5LwPzm2QTvd7F+fcHOgZ8KOFScbDpjJaRqwIybMTcIN0B2pBLX/C10W1aY+cUrXZ gXUGVISEMmpaP9v02auToo7XXVEHC+XLO9IU7/xaU98FL69l6/K4xeNSBRM/AAMHA/wNAmRB pcyK0+VggZ5esQaIP/LyolAm2qwcmrd3dZi+g24s7yjV0EUwvRP7xHRDQFgkAo6++QbuecU/ J90lxrVnQwucZmfz9zgWDkT/MpfB/CNRSKLFjhYq2yHmHWT6vEjw9Ry/hF6Pc0oh1a62USdf aKAiim0nVxxQmPmiRvtCmYhJBBgRAgAJBQJBDrBvAhsMAAoJELtYafBk6nSr43AAn2ZZFQg8 Gs/zUzvXMt7evaFqVTzcAJ0cHtKpP1i/4H4R9+OsYeQdxxWxTQ== User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.4.1 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US X-Junkmail-Status: score=8/90, host=mpv2-2015.case.edu X-Junkmail-PrAS-Raw: score=8/90, refid=2.7.2:2020.1.21.195717:17:8.317, ip=, rules=DKIM_SIGNATURE, __HAS_REPLYTO, __HAS_CC_HDR, __MULTIPLE_RCPTS_CC_X2, __SUBJ_REPLY, __BOUNCE_CHALLENGE_SUBJ, __BOUNCE_NDR_SUBJ_EXEMPT, __SUBJ_ALPHA_END, __TO_MALFORMED_2, __TO_NAME, __TO_NAME_DIFF_FROM_ACC, __HAS_REFERENCES, __REFERENCES, __HAS_FROM, FROM_EDU_TLD, __HAS_MSGID, __SANE_MSGID, DATE_TZ_NA, __USER_AGENT, __MOZILLA_USER_AGENT, __MIME_VERSION, __IN_REP_TO, __CT, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN, __CTE, __REPLYTO_SAMEAS_FROM_ADDY, __REPLYTO_SAMEAS_FROM_ACC, __FROM_DOMAIN_IN_ANY_CC2, __REPLYTO_SAMEAS_FROM_DOMAIN, __DKIM_ALIGNS_1, __DKIM_ALIGNS_2, __ANY_URI, __URI_MAILTO, __URI_WITH_PATH, __URI_NO_WWW, __CP_URI_IN_BODY, __SUBJ_ALPHA_NEGATE, __URI_IN_BODY, __URI_NOT_IMG, __MAIL_CHAIN, __BODY_NO_MAILTO, __NO_HTML_TAG_RAW, BODYTEXTP_SIZE_3000_LESS, BODY_SIZE_500_599, __MIME_TEXT_P1, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY, __URI_NS, HTML_00_01, HTML_00_10, DKIM_ALIGNS, [TRUNCATED], so=2010-03-03 19:42:08, dmn=2016-08-03-0138 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 129.22.103.227 X-BeenThere: bug-bash@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-Mailman-Original-Message-ID: X-Mailman-Original-References: Xref: csiph.com gnu.bash.bug:15822 On 1/21/20 4:13 PM, William Theisen wrote: > I've just tested this, it's a little awkward but does actually work. Thanks > for the suggestion I'll play around with making it a little more > convenient to use. Thanks for your time. If you don't want to destroy your script's positional parameters, you can wrap your loop in a shell function, which has its own set. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/