[GRASS5] strange things on cmd line

[Markus Neteler]

Thanks to all who helped with my s.surf.rst problem.

I fact there was a "blank" after \, now it's running well.

Markus

On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 12:52:49PM +0100, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 09:56:57AM +0100, Markus Neteler wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 05:39:43PM -0700, Roger Miller wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 06 February 2002 15:31, Markus Neteler wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > today I found something unusual (maybe my error?):
> > > 
> > > Command line continuation (are not) should be determined by your
> > > shell, not by GRASS.  If it is a problem, then would it be
> > > GRASS's problem or a problem with the shell?
> > 
> > I have been using "\" successfully with other commands in GRASS (in bash).
> > Only s.surf.rst fails. Probably a parsing problem in that module?
> 
> If shell continuation works, the program will see exactly the same
> as with a long line. Make sure you do not have anything on the line 
> after the backslash. 
> 
> There might be a problem with parsing spaces and tabs in the module
> if the above does not solve the problem.
> 
> For illustration see the following tests:
> 
> $ echo $BASH_VERSION 
> 2.03.0(1)-release
> 
> $ echo bla bla bla | od -tcx
> 0000000   b   l   a       b   l   a       b   l   a  \n
>         20616c62 20616c62 0a616c62
> 0000014
> 
> bernhard at abnoba:~$ echo bla bla\              
> >  bla | od -tcx
> 0000000   b   l   a       b   l   a       b   l   a  \n
>         20616c62 20616c62 0a616c62
> 0000014
> bernhard at abnoba:~$ echo bla bla \            
> > bla | od -tcx
> 0000000   b   l   a       b   l   a       b   l   a  \n
>         20616c62 20616c62 0a616c62
> 0000014
> 
> 
> 	Bernhard
> 
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