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Diffstat (limited to 'COMPAT')
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Compatibility with previous versions ==================================== This document details the incompatibilities between this version of bash, -bash-5.1, and the previous widely-available versions, bash-3.x (which is +bash-5.1, and the previous widely-available versions, bash-3.2 (which is still the `standard' version for Mac OS X), 4.2/4.3 (which are still standard on a few Linux distributions), and bash-4.4/bash-5.0, the current widely-available versions. These were discovered by users of bash-2.x @@ -538,6 +538,11 @@ compat50 (set using BASH_COMPAT) lower, it reverts to the method from bash-5.0 and previous versions, so seeding the random number generator by assigning a value to RANDOM will produce the same sequence as in bash-5.0 + - If the command hash table is empty, bash versions prior to bash-5.1 + printed an informational message to that effect even when writing + output in a format that can be reused as input (-l). Bash-5.1 + suppresses that message if -l is supplied + ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |