| Summary: | Small mistake in "Bash by example, Part 2" document | ||
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| Product: | [OLD] Docs on www.gentoo.org | Reporter: | Pablo Antonio <pabloa> |
| Component: | Other documents | Assignee: | Xavier Neys (RETIRED) <neysx> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | docs-team, drobbins |
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
| URL: | http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/articles/bash-by-example-p2.xml | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
Actually, I realized the same mistake occurs two more times in the same paragraph. It's not that it's a vital error, but it surely creates some surprise in newbies' minds. Fixed. Thanks for reporting. |
There's a small mistake in one of the explanations of a specific example; more precisely, it says: In the code, "$x" is the name of a file, and "${x##.*}" has the effect of stripping all text except that following the last period in the filename. Where it should say: In the code, "$x" is the name of a file, and "${x##*.}" has the effect of stripping all text except that following the last period in the filename. (Notice that the only change is the wildcard in "${x##.*}". The script itself does not require any corrections.)