* New flag
@ 1991-08-01 18:43 Drazen Borkovic
1991-08-02 8:26 ` Boyd Roberts
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From: Drazen Borkovic @ 1991-08-01 18:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: rc
Rc has a nice property that the input is not rescanned,
and consequently the parse errors are detected when they
are read.
Under this light, I thought that a flag '-n' that causes
rc to read the commands but not to execute them, could
be useful for checking rc scripts. There are other flags
that other shells support, but this one did not appear
too strongly as a hack.
What do the other (un)satisfied customers think about this?
Drazen Borkovic (drazen@vlsi.cs.caltech.edu)
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* Re: New flag
1991-08-01 18:43 New flag Drazen Borkovic
@ 1991-08-02 8:26 ` Boyd Roberts
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From: Boyd Roberts @ 1991-08-02 8:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Drazen Borkovic, rc
I don't think you need -n. The syntax is checked when you type it in
interactively, or when you execute the freshly written script. By the
the time the production script is finished it shouldn't have any syntax errors.
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