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Re: Redoing the code in /bin/sh to handle the issues in PR bin/48875



    Date:        Sat, 18 Aug 2018 08:00:40 -0500
    From:        "J. Lewis Muir" <jlmuir%imca-cat.org@localhost>
    Message-ID:  <20180818130040.GA1132%tuna.imca.aps.anl.gov@localhost>

  | I see your point.  Yes, this seems too long.  Maybe it would be more
  | appropriate in the POSIX sh shell book you were planning to write. :-)

Yeah...   5000 pages saying nothing comprehensible.   Not useful...

  | I was thinking something short like what's in the Pipelines subsection
  | of the Description section of sh(1) right now:

I will rethink and see if there is something meaningful that might help.
The problem is that the easy ones are obvious, and so there's little
point, the ones that cause a problem are more complex, and harder
to explain.

kre



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