From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22113 invoked from network); 29 Jul 2004 15:49:19 -0000 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 29 Jul 2004 15:49:19 -0000 Received: (qmail 31777 invoked from network); 29 Jul 2004 15:49:14 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 29 Jul 2004 15:49:14 -0000 Received: (qmail 24731 invoked by alias); 29 Jul 2004 15:48:34 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 7786 Received: (qmail 24721 invoked from network); 29 Jul 2004 15:48:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by 130.225.247.90 with SMTP; 29 Jul 2004 15:48:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 29082 invoked from network); 29 Jul 2004 15:46:35 -0000 Received: from web51107.mail.yahoo.com (206.190.38.149) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 29 Jul 2004 15:46:32 -0000 Message-ID: <20040729154631.96457.qmail@web51107.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [67.124.229.34] by web51107.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 29 Jul 2004 08:46:31 PDT Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 08:46:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Felix Rosencrantz Subject: OT: Bash 3.0 Released To: zsh-users MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 on a.mx.sunsite.dk X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.4 required=6.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_SORBS autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Hits: -3.4 Since this is a major release number, thought folks might find this interesting, even though this is off topic. There's a Slashdot posting: http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/04/07/29/139218.shtml?tid=162&tid=117&tid=190&tid=130&tid=106 Chet Ramey's Usenet posting: http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&start=25&hl=en&lr=lang_da%7Clang_en%7Clang_no%7Clang_pl%7Clang_sv&ie=UTF-8&group=comp.unix.shell&c2coff=1&selm=ce69oa%24sev%241%40eeyore.INS.cwru.edu Major new features from that posting: o Features to support the bash debugger have been implemented, and there is a new `extdebug' option to turn the non-default options on o HISTCONTROL is now a colon-separated list of options and has been extended with a new `erasedups' option that will result in only one copy of a command being kept in the history list o Brace expansion has been extended with a new {x..y} form, producing sequences of digits or characters o Timestamps are now kept with history entries, with an option to save and restore them from the history file; there is a new HISTTIMEFORMAT variable describing how to display the timestamps when listing history entries o The `[[' command can now perform extended regular expression (egrep-like) matching, with matched subexpressions placed in the BASH_REMATCH array variable o A new `pipefail' option causes a pipeline to return a failure status if any command in it fails o The `jobs', `kill', and `wait' builtins now accept job control notation in their arguments even if job control is not enabled -FR. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com