Re: shopt -s checkwinsize gone?
On 02/23/2011 07:19 PM, Thilo Six wrote:
Thilo Six wrote the following on 24.02.2011 01:11
Wayne Topa wrote the following on 23.02.2011 22:39
Hi Debainites
I just tried, on a testing/unstable partition, the above command
and it no longer works. It (shopt) is still shown in the bash 4.1-3
man page so I would expect it to work.
I have both bash and bash -completion 1:1.3-1 installed.
Have I missed something obvious, again?
TIA
WT
I am using squeeze but bash hasn´t been updated in unstable since and therefore
the versions are the same. Here it works:
$ shopt -u checkwinsize
$ shopt | grep checkwin
checkwinsize off
$ shopt -s checkwinsize
$ shopt | grep checkwin
checkwinsize on
PS. does
$ \shopt -s checkwinsize
work for you?
Not using Debian, but I do have shopt. The man page says that the default is
everything set off (shopt -u). And if you do shopt -s, everything it
controls is
turned on. I'm afraid I don't see what this command is intended to do, and
especially, why one would arbitrarily turn everything on, if the norm is for
everything to be off. If someone could explain in words of one syllable or
so what is intended here, rather than several pages of man which don't mean
too much to me, I'd appreciate it.
Thanx--doug
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