Re: bash syntax
Remco van de Meent wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Witold Grabysz wrote:
>
> : the following phrase doesn't work in bash:
> : ((ls);(ls))
> : Why? Is it not allowed by the shell syntax or there is a bug in it?
> :
> : It is a little important for me, because it is how the Netscape 4 spawns
> : an external helper:
> : ((gv temp_file.ps);(rm temp_file.ps))
> :
> : In tcsh it works, however I cannot force Netscape to spawn processes in
> : tcsh.
>
> bash-2.00 introduced this 'feature' of not-working indeed. Upgrade to 2.01
> and everything will be fine again.
>
> bye,
>
> Remco
Dear Remco,
not everything is fine. I have done according to your advice: got bash-2.01
source and compiled it.
Netscape works now, but when a non-privileged user run startx, there is a
message:
The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
>Error: Cannot open "compiled/server-0.xkm" to write keyboard
description
> Exiting
How can you comment this?
Witold
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