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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Bash 101 - string assigment Post 303022202 by rovf on Monday 27th of August 2018 11:03:55 AM
Old 08-27-2018
Be careful with this approach! If you don't understand what you are doing, you can easily end up with code which produces no error and works fine with your current set of data, and blows up or does something strange if your data look a little bit different (files missing, spaces in filenames and so on). Not nice if, for instance, half of your files get deleted because of a mistake in your program. Happens much easier in bash than in C++. Better ask here in the forum, if there is a construct which you don't understand.
 

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BASHBUG(1)						      General Commands Manual							BASHBUG(1)

NAME

       bashbug - report a bug in bash

SYNOPSIS

       bashbug [--version] [--help] [email-address]

DESCRIPTION

       bashbug	is  a shell script to help the user compose and mail bug reports concerning bash in a standard format.	bashbug invokes the editor
       specified by the environment variable EDITOR on a temporary copy of the bug report format outline. The user must fill  in  the  appropriate
       fields  and  exit  the  editor.	 bashbug  then	mails the completed report to bug-bash@gnu.org, or email-address.  If the report cannot be
       mailed, it is saved in the file dead.bashbug in the invoking user's home directory.

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       the  bash  version, and the compilation environment.  The second section should be filled in with a description of the bug.  The third sec-
       tion should be a description of how to reproduce the bug.  The optional fourth section is for a proposed fix.  Fixes are encouraged.

ENVIRONMENT

       bashbug will utilize the following environment variables if they exist:

       EDITOR Specifies the preferred editor. If EDITOR is not set, bashbug defaults to emacs.

       HOME   Directory in which the failed bug report is saved if the mail fails.

       TMPDIR Directory in which to create temporary files and directories.

SEE ALSO

       bash(1)

AUTHORS

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