Having lots of problems with certain shopts

Depending on architecture and other things sometimes even the same
version of bash may or may not support things like shopt -s autocd.
My kludgy workaround here is simply to ignore stderr.

diff --git a/rc/bash_login b/rc/bash_login
index d163c7b..4d75a42 100644 (file)
--- a/rc/bash_login
+++ b/rc/bash_login
@@ -154,8 +154,8 @@ set +u
 # Shell options
 if [ $ARCHITECTURE != 'Darwin' ]; then
   if ! grep -qP '5\.(6|7|8|9|10)' /etc/*release; then
-    shopt -s autocd
-    shopt -s dirspell
+    shopt -s autocd   > /dev/null 2>&1
+    shopt -s dirspell > /dev/null 2>&1
   fi
 fi