Re: updating shopt compat settings to include current version

From	Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
Newsgroups	gnu.bash.bug
Subject	Re: updating shopt compat settings to include current version
Date	2015-10-16 14:26 -0400
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On 10/16/15 11:37 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:

> unset BASH_COMPAT
> shopt -u compat31 compat32 compat40 compat41
> shopt -s compat42 2>/dev/null || :
> 
> to set shell_compatibility_level to 42 on bash versions >= bash-4.2.
> 
> (this needs the attached patch for bash-4.3 to fix a typo in shopt.def)

And, of course, you can just add

BASH_COMPAT=42

at the end to get around the unpatched bash-4.3 bug.

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Re: updating shopt compat settings to include current version Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> - 2015-10-16 14:26 -0400

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