Any Bash features you'd like to see?

William Park opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org
Wed May 11 14:53:57 UTC 2005


On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 10:28:11AM -0400, Ilya Palagin wrote:
> Quoting William Park <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org>:
> 
> >I've just added bunch of string operations into Bash shell.
> >   http://freshmeat.net/projects/bashdiff/
> >
> >While I'm at it, is there any features that you'd like to see in Bash
> >shell?
> >
> 
> Undefined variables in shell scripts are difficult to debug sometimes.
> An option to disallow them?

Explain what you mean by "undefined".  Variable can be "undefined" if it
does not exist.  Or, it can be "undefined" if it has empty value (nul).

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