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Re: [patch] new special variable: test argument


From: Piotr Grzybowski
Subject: Re: [patch] new special variable: test argument
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 16:24:41 +0100

On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 2:27 PM, Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:
>
> If you are trying to advocate for a new feature in bash, it would behoove
> you to use an example that ACTUALLY DEMONSTRATES how it would be useful.
> Not a bogus example in which the feature is not only unnecessary, but
> harmful as well.

 thanks Greg. It was not my intention to harm. The examples were just
to give you some idea, and indeed they did.

> [..]
> In a script, one would store the filename in a variable, every single time.

 I might add: yes, $^ variable ;-) but I will not.

thanks,
pg



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