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| From | Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | gnu.bash.bug |
| Subject | Re: exiting noninteractive shells on 'shift 2' |
| Date | 2018-11-09 10:46 -0600 |
| Organization | Red Hat, Inc. |
| Message-ID | <mailman.3755.1541782006.1284.bug-bash@gnu.org> (permalink) |
| References | (1 earlier) <d8601773-69c8-16d1-82ab-5068d63bb24d@case.edu> <9ced783a-1c2b-f2c8-2287-fc0f6b967fa8@redhat.com> <fbe5c62d-d633-2fa5-32d1-591ff41a23cc@case.edu> <685c4d41-dcf1-61bc-0b65-04e2b180d568@redhat.com> <26ebd997-741d-0966-de68-4c0b4ea00c15@case.edu> |
On 11/9/18 10:42 AM, Chet Ramey wrote: > >> A diagnostic message shall be written to standard error whenever an >> error condition occurs." >> >> Since 'shift 2' when $# is 1 is an error, and results in non-zero status, >> it should print a diagnostic to stderr. > > So maybe the thing to do is to turn on the shift_verbose option in posix > mode. Cool - I didn't realize we already had a shopt for that. Yes, it sounds like in POSIX mode, shift_verbose should be turned on. On a related note, should turning on POSIX mode also auto-enable xpg_echo? -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org
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Re: exiting noninteractive shells on 'shift 2' Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> - 2018-11-09 10:46 -0600
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