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authorJari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>2002-07-17 14:10:11 +0000
committerJari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>2009-09-12 16:46:55 +0000
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This document details the incompatibilites between this version of bash,
-bash-2.05a, and the previous widely-available version, bash-1.14 (which
+bash-2.05b, and the previous widely-available version, bash-1.14 (which
is still the `standard' version for many Linux distributions). These
were discovered by users of bash-2.x, so this list is not comprehensive.
Some of these incompatibilities occur between the current version and
@@ -44,8 +44,8 @@ versions 2.0 and above.
3. The options to `bind' have changed to make them more consistent with
the rest of the bash builtins. If you are using `bind -d' to list
- the readline keybindings in a form that can be re-read, use `bind -p'
- instead. If you were using `bind -v' to list the keybindings, use
+ the readline key bindings in a form that can be re-read, use `bind -p'
+ instead. If you were using `bind -v' to list the key bindings, use
`bind -P' instead.
4. The `long' invocation options must now be prefixed by `--' instead
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ versions 2.0 and above.
"\C-\\": self-insert
-6. A number of people complained above having to use ESC to terminate an
+6. A number of people complained about having to use ESC to terminate an
incremental search, and asked for an alternate mechanism. Bash-2.03
uses the value of the settable readline variable `isearch-terminators'
to decide which characters should terminate an incremental search. If
@@ -146,6 +146,11 @@ versions 2.0 and above.
AaBb...Zz
so a range specification like [A-Z] will match every letter except `z'.
+ Other locales collate like
+
+ aAbBcC...zZ
+
+ which means that [A-Z] matches every letter except `a'.
The portable way to specify upper case letters is [:upper:] instead of
A-Z; lower case may be specified as [:lower:] instead of a-z.