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| From | Linda Walsh <bash@tlinx.org> |
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| Subject | Re: updating shopt compat settings to include current version |
| Date | Thu, 15 Oct 2015 11:01:48 -0700 |
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Mike Frysinger wrote: > with bash-4.0, new compat options were introduced: > shopt -s compat32 > and with bash-4.3, a variable was added: > export BASH_COMPAT=3.2 ---- > shopt -p|grep compat43 > # (no output) --- Maybe if you could check if there is a compat setting for a given version, since compat's aren't usually defined until the following version --- and THEN, only if 4.4 changed something that it needed a compat43 option. AFAIK, compats were introduced because of newer versions being incompat in some way to the old. But if there is no incompat, there wouldn't be a need for a compat43 option... Else shopt's options will just grow/grow/grow..... ??
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Re: updating shopt compat settings to include current version Linda Walsh <bash@tlinx.org> - 2015-10-15 11:01 -0700
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