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

From	Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
Newsgroups	gnu.bash.bug
Subject	Re: hash -l with empty hash table prints to stdout
Date	2020-06-16 10:51 -0400
Organization	ITS, Case Western Reserve University
Message-ID	<mailman.1985.1592319082.2541.bug-bash@gnu.org> (permalink)
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On 6/16/20 10:26 AM, Eli Schwartz wrote:
> 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?

No, not at all. What are you trying to debug?

Maybe it would be better to remove the message entirely and only display it
in compatibility mode.

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		 ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/

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Re: hash -l with empty hash table prints to stdout Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> - 2020-06-16 10:51 -0400

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