Re: checkwinsize only works in interactive shells

[DJ Mills]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 4:43 PM, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:

> On 1/11/13 4:13 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > shopt -s checkwinsize only works in interactive shells.  However, this
> > is not mentioned in the manual.
>
> Yes, that's true.  This was reported in June, and the development versions
> since then have been changed to make it work in non-interactive shells
> as well.  It will be that way in bash-4.3.
>
> Chet
>
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> Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU    chet@case.edu
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>
>
Will they still be updated on WINCH without checkwinsize, as well? And will
they be set by default, or continue to be unset in scripts unless set
manually?

Thanks,
DJ