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Article #968Missing functionality from BASH ?
From: Martin Walker
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 19:09
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 19:09
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I know BASH is supposed to be POSIX compliant and all that, but not having the POSIX standards documents, I don't know whether the following minor features of the Korn shell are missing from BASH, or missing from POSIX: a) CDSPELL. In ksh (or at least on SCO's ksh), if you mis-type a directory name, cd finds the closes matching directory, and prompts you for a y/n entry. Each time you say no to a directory, it carries on seaching down CDPATH for another possible match. Only one the end of all possible directories have been refused as options, does cd report that the directory does not exist. b) cd name substitution. If your current directory is, say /usr/spool/uucp and you type in 'cd spool lib', ksh changes you to /usr/lib/uucp. ksh substitutes the second parameter for that portion of PWD that matches the first parameter. Very usefull feature that. I hope to see these features in the next release of BASH. Congratulations to GNU on a damn fine shell otherwise. Kean Johnston. -- Martin Walker | "One way to stop a runaway horse ++27-12-344-3973 (w) | is to bet on him" ++27-12-998-7263 (h) | maw@netcom.com Pretoria, South Africa | martin@paradigm.CO.ZA
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Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!netcom.com!maw From: maw@netcom.com (Martin Walker) Subject: Missing functionality from BASH ? Message-ID: <1992Dec12.190958.9979@netcom.com> Sender: gnulists@ai.mit.edu Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) Distribution: gnu Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 19:09:58 GMT Approved: bug-bash@prep.ai.mit.edu Lines: 26