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- From: maw@netcom.com (Martin Walker)
- Subject: Missing functionality from BASH ?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec12.190958.9979@netcom.com>
- Sender: gnulists@ai.mit.edu
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- Distribution: gnu
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 19:09:58 GMT
- Approved: bug-bash@prep.ai.mit.edu
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- I know BASH is supposed to be POSIX compliant and all that, but not having
- the POSIX standards documents, I don't know whether the following minor
- features of the Korn shell are missing from BASH, or missing from POSIX:
-
- a) CDSPELL. In ksh (or at least on SCO's ksh), if you mis-type a directory
- name, cd finds the closes matching directory, and prompts you for a
- y/n entry. Each time you say no to a directory, it carries on seaching
- down CDPATH for another possible match. Only one the end of all possible
- directories have been refused as options, does cd report that the directory
- does not exist.
-
- b) cd name substitution. If your current directory is, say /usr/spool/uucp
- and you type in 'cd spool lib', ksh changes you to /usr/lib/uucp. ksh
- substitutes the second parameter for that portion of PWD that matches
- the first parameter. Very usefull feature that.
-
- I hope to see these features in the next release of BASH. Congratulations
- to GNU on a damn fine shell otherwise.
-
- Kean Johnston.
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