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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ This document details the incompatibilites between this version of bash, -bash-3.0, and a previous widely-available version, bash-1.14 (which +bash-3.1, and a previous widely-available version, bash-1.14 (which is still the `standard' version for a few Linux distributions). These were discovered by users of bash-2.x and 3.x, so this list is not comprehensive. Some of these incompatibilities occur between the current @@ -212,3 +212,14 @@ and bash-2.0 were significant.) 18. Bash no longer requires that the body of a function be a group command; any compound command is accepted. + +19. As of bash-3.0, the pattern substitution operators no longer perform + quote removal on the pattern before attempting the match. This is the + way the pattern removal functions behave, and is more consistent. + +20. After bash-3.0 was released, I reimplemented tilde expansion, incorporating + it into the mainline word expansion code. This fixes the bug that caused + the results of tilde expansion to be re-expanded. There is one + incompatibility: a ${paramOPword} expansion within double quotes will not + perform tilde expansion on WORD. This is consistent with the other + expansions, and what POSIX specifies. |