26 Feb
2010
26 Feb
'10
5:25 p.m.
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 08:13:15PM -0500, Ray Kohler wrote:
I think this is one of the very old tricks that was first done in the original csh, and picked up as "an obvious idea" by bash when it was started. Nowadays, we've all forgotten about it, and it's become mysterious.
I can't reproduce this behavior on GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release (i386-portbld-freebsd4.7), but can on GNU bash, version 4.0.24(0)-release (amd64-portbld-freebsd7.2) and other 4.x bashes on various Linux boxes. I don't have bash 3 available, but someone already mentioned it working for that. -- Jeff My other computer is an abacus.