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| author | Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> | 1999-02-19 17:11:39 +0000 |
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| committer | Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> | 2009-09-12 16:46:52 +0000 |
| commit | b72432fdcc59300c6fe7c9d6c8a31ad3447933f5 (patch) | |
| tree | b9899162338c2ff3fd83a8aef8831cb119e85cd7 /COMPAT | |
| parent | bc4cd23ce958feda898c618215f94d8a4e8f4ffa (diff) | |
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Imported from ../bash-2.03.tar.gz.
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@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ This document details the incompatibilites between this version of bash, -bash-2.01, and the previous widely-available version, bash-1.14. These -were discovered by alpha and beta testers, so they will likely be -encountered by a significant number of users. +bash-2.03, 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. 1. Bash now uses a new quoting syntax, $"...", to do locale-specific string translation. Users who have relied on the (undocumented) @@ -63,9 +63,11 @@ encountered by a significant number of users. "\C-\\": self-insert 6. A number of people complained above having to use ESC to terminate an - incremental search, and asked for an alternate mechanism. Bash-2.0 - allows ^J to terminate the search without accepting the line. Use - ^M to terminate the search and accept the line, as in bash-1.14. + 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 + that variable has not been set, ESC and Control-J will terminate a + search. 7. Some variables have been removed: MAIL_WARNING, notify, history_control, command_oriented_history, glob_dot_filenames, allow_null_glob_expansion, @@ -115,3 +117,10 @@ encountered by a significant number of users. An interactive shell started in posix mode reads and executes commands from the file named by $ENV. + +11. The <> redirection operator was changed to conform to the POSIX.2 spec. + In the absence of any file descriptor specification preceding the `<>', + file descriptor 0 is used. In bash-1.14, this was the behavior only + when in POSIX mode. The bash-1.14 behavior may be obtained with + + <>filename 1>&0 |