Bash 5.1, described because the fifth main launch of the Unix and Linux shell in a launch bulletin, was printed earlier this month, that includes a return to Bash 4.Four conduct concerning pathname enlargement.
Called probably the most important change within the new launch, the return to Bash 4.Four conduct entails not performing pathname enlargement on a phrase that comprises backslashes however doesn’t include unquoted globbing particular characters. The Bash 5.1 launch additionally introduces modifications in entice dealing with whereas studying from the terminal, and it fixes quite a lot of bugs together with a number of that precipitated the shell to crash.
Bash 5.1 might be downloaded from the principle GNU server. Elsewhere in Bash 5.1:
- The addition of “faces” in Readline highlights textual content between the purpose and mark. This was added to point out the textual content inserted by bracketed paste and likewise marks the textual content discovered by incremental and non-incremental historical past searches.
- A brand new variable, SRANDOM, will get its random knowledge from the system’s entropy engine and isn’t linear and can’t be reseeded to get an similar random sequence.
- New parameter transformation operators.
- A brand new model of the standalone Readline library, model 8.1, is on the market, with its personal scripts and Makefiles, on the grasp department of the GNU Git readline repository.
Bash is the GNU Project Bourne Again Shell, an implementation of the POSIX shell specification, however with capabilities equivalent to interactive command line modifying and job management.
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