[gnu.bash.bug] questions re bash-1.04

lj@spdcc.COM (Len Jacobs) (02/04/90)

1. While using bash-1.04 on a Sun 3/160 running SunOS 3.5, creating
a new window by executing "shelltool &" the new window is created but
"echo" is turned off of the stty settings in the new window.

2. Is there any way to run an aliased command without the
alias being in effect?  In csh I can "\rm" to produce the
unalised effect of "rm".

3. Is there a bash equivalent to the csh "repeat" command?

Thanks.
-- 
Len Jacobs
lj@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM

trost@reed.bitnet (Bill Trost,Box 607,ext 640,) (02/07/90)

In message <1510@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM>, lj@ursa-major.spdcc.COM (Len
Jacobs) writes:
....
>Is there a bash equivalent to the csh "repeat" command?

Excluding oddities in the behavior of csh (involving redirecting, job
control, and the like), this should do the job.  I've found the
oddities of csh to be non-intuitive anyhow.

Awk doesn't seem right for this, but I'm being lazy and it was the
only thing I could think of that is commonly available.  A calculator
program should do the job; a C program would be easy enough (and
useful in its own right).

repeat () {
	local count
	count=$1
	shift
	for i in `awk 'BEGIN { for (i = 1; i <= '$count'; i++)
			 print i }' < /dev/null`
	do
		$*		# use "$@" in bash 1.05 and later	
	done
}