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Re: [Help-bash] Why bash has two sets of options (controlled by `set' an
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: [Help-bash] Why bash has two sets of options (controlled by `set' and `shopt') |
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Mon, 26 Oct 2015 13:44:41 -0400 |
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On 10/26/15 1:14 PM, Stephane Chazelas wrote:
> So, is the rule:
>
> an option is a set -o (SHELLOPTS) option as opposed to a shopt
> option (BASHOPTS) if it has a corresponding single-letter "set"
> option, or is in POSIX (ignoreeof, vi) or is also in ksh (emacs,
> pipefail, histexpand...)?
Kind of. It's not a given that any particular -o option that ksh93 has
will be a -o option in bash. Keep in mind that `emacs' was in drafts of
Posix until Stallman had it removed, and `histexpand' originated with
bash, has a single-letter set equivalent (set -H), and predates shopt.
I added pipefail in the hopes that Posix would standardize it -- Korn
requested that, as I recall.
> But then, what about login_shell and globstar which are in ksh
> but in BASHOPTS. And history, posix or interactive-comments that
> don't have single letter options, and are not in ksh or POSIX?
login_shell came to bash first, I think, and globstar was the kind
of thing that shopt was made for. `history' came in at the same
time as shopt, but went into -o in the hope that Posix would use it,
if I am remembering 10-15 years ago correctly. `posix' and
`interactive-comments' predate `shopt'.
So, it's an evolving rule, but you have to remember the history and
chronology.
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