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Re: [Help-bash] Clarify the meaning of 's' in $- and the meaning of -s w
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: [Help-bash] Clarify the meaning of 's' in $- and the meaning of -s when invoking bash |
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Thu, 16 Mar 2017 15:01:21 -0400 |
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On 3/16/17 9:16 AM, Stephane Chazelas wrote:
> That was a non-conformance (or at least deviation from every
> other Bourne-like shell) of bash. It was fixed in 4.4
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> $ echo 'echo $- $BASH_VERSION' | bash
> hBs 4.4.11(1)-release
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> IIRC, that was discussed last year either on the Austin group or
> bug-bash mailing list.
It had to be austin-group-l. In any case, that behavior is now explicitly
unspecified:
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1039#c3617
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