Need shell scripters to test Bash patch

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, William Park wrote:

> Dear shell scripters,
>
> I wrote a patch to Bash-2.05b, incorporating Awk and Python features
> that I like and use often.  Most recently, I added regular expression to
> [...], [[...]], 'test', and 'case' statements.  Other major features
> are
>     - splitting and extracting regex patterns
>     - integer and letter generation
>     - multi-variable for-loop
>
> In essence, I've been trying to extend Bash's capability, so that I
> don't have to keep going back and forth between Bash and Awk/Python/Perl
> for silly little things.
>
> I would like beta testers.  Any feedback would be welcome.


    "array -s"  behaves the same as  "array -r"

$ q=( q w e r t y u i o p )
$ printf "  %b" "\n" "${q[@]}" "\n\n"

  q  w  e  r  t  y  u  i  o  p

$ array -s q
$ printf "  %b" "\n" "${q[@]}" "\n\n"

  p  o  i  u  y  t  r  e  w  q

$ array -r q
$ printf "  %b" "\n" "${q[@]}" "\n\n"

  q  w  e  r  t  y  u  i  o  p

$


     .....more later; it's bedtime



     You might like to try a script I just wrote:

       <http://cfaj.freeshell.org/src/scripts/mouse-demo>



> Relevant files are
>     http://home.eol.ca/~parkw/bash.diff			--> my patch
>     ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bash/bash-2.05b.tar.gz	--> Bash source
> and there are short descriptions in <comp.unix.shell> articles that I
> posted,
>     http://groups.google.com/groups?group=comp.unix.shell&selm=btgihg%246gdcq%241%40ID-99293.news.uni-berlin.de
>     http://groups.google.com/groups?group=comp.unix.shell&selm=btinhd%247j07e%241%40ID-99293.news.uni-berlin.de
>
>

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