Comments on: bash is terrifying me again

By: anonymous

anonymous — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 13:06:32 +0000

It’s not just a bash-ism. It’s in ksh too.
Don’t know where it appeared first.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 22:03:11 +0000

I found what I am missing. In Debian (and clones) bash is compiled without socket support.

By: di1

di1 — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 16:14:51 +0000

cool :)

By: Rich

Rich — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 07:45:42 +0000

It’s a bashism.

By: vombatus

vombatus — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 23:55:24 +0000

Interesting, but it doesn’t work here. What is /dev/tcp/blahblahblah interface? Is it a bashism or OSism? If second what OS? If Linux what am I missing? :)

By: Rich

Rich — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 06:58:13 +0000

Maybe I have been stuck in arm-linx-2.4 land and OS X land for too long or maybe I have been using tcsh for too long, but I don't get it. /dev/tcp? It's just icky but neato! bash now supports sockets, and the syntax for accessing them uses "paths" that don't exist anywhere but in bash's little imagination.

By: brianenigma

brianenigma — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 05:28:17 +0000

Maybe I have been stuck in arm-linx-2.4 land and OS X land for too long or maybe I have been using tcsh for too long, but I don’t get it. /dev/tcp?

I do get the smiley-return-value thing. I may have to start using something like that!

By: crschmidt

crschmidt — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 04:15:39 +0000

I love mendel’s true/false smiley prompt!

By: fweebles

fweebles — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 23:08:46 +0000

So very wrong.

By: Rich

Rich — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 23:00:35 +0000

Blame Dagbrown.

:) fishsticks$ false
:( fishsticks$