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This document details the incompatibilites between this version of bash,
bash-2.01, and the previous widely-available version, bash-1.14. These
were discovered by alpha and beta testers, so they will likely be
encountered by a significant number of users.
bash-2.03, and the previous widely-available version, bash-1.14 (which
is still the `standard' version for many Linux distributions). These
were discovered by users of bash-2.x, so this list is not comprehensive.
1. Bash now uses a new quoting syntax, $"...", to do locale-specific
string translation. Users who have relied on the (undocumented)
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"\C-\\": self-insert
6. A number of people complained above having to use ESC to terminate an
incremental search, and asked for an alternate mechanism. Bash-2.0
allows ^J to terminate the search without accepting the line. Use
^M to terminate the search and accept the line, as in bash-1.14.
incremental search, and asked for an alternate mechanism. Bash-2.03
uses the value of the settable readline variable `isearch-terminators'
to decide which characters should terminate an incremental search. If
that variable has not been set, ESC and Control-J will terminate a
search.
7. Some variables have been removed: MAIL_WARNING, notify, history_control,
command_oriented_history, glob_dot_filenames, allow_null_glob_expansion,
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An interactive shell started in posix mode reads and executes commands
from the file named by $ENV.
11. The <> redirection operator was changed to conform to the POSIX.2 spec.
In the absence of any file descriptor specification preceding the `<>',
file descriptor 0 is used. In bash-1.14, this was the behavior only
when in POSIX mode. The bash-1.14 behavior may be obtained with
<>filename 1>&0