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Re: -d option not working. . .?
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Eric Blake |
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Re: -d option not working. . .? |
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Wed, 12 Sep 2007 07:03:26 -0600 |
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According to Michael Williams on 9/12/2007 4:06 AM:
> Being that I'm not a bash (or any other shell for that matter) guru, is
> there any reason that parsing occurs this way? Why is it not more like
> other programming languages?
Two words: history and POSIX. It's been done that way for more than 20
years, so it was standardized that way. Changing it would break too many
existing scripts.
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Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
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