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@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Introduction ============ -This is GNU Bash, version 4.4. Bash is the GNU Project's Bourne +This is GNU Bash, version 5.0. Bash is the GNU Project's Bourne Again SHell, a complete implementation of the POSIX shell spec, but also with interactive command line editing, job control on architectures that support it, csh-like features such as history @@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ See the file POSIX for a discussion of how the Bash defaults differ from the POSIX spec and a description of the Bash `posix mode'. There are some user-visible incompatibilities between this version -of Bash and previous widely-distributed versions, bash-4.2 and -bash-4.3. For details, see the file COMPAT. The NEWS file tersely +of Bash and previous widely-distributed versions, bash-4.3 and +bash-4.4. For details, see the file COMPAT. The NEWS file tersely lists features that are new in this release. Bash is free software, distributed under the terms of the [GNU] General @@ -88,6 +88,18 @@ to bash-maintainers@gnu.org. While the Bash maintainers do not promise to fix all bugs, we would like this shell to be the best that we can make it. +Other Packages +============== + +This distribution includes, in examples/bash-completion, a recent version +of the `bash-completion' package, which provides programmable completions +for a number of commands. It's available as a package in many distributions, +and that is the first place from which to obtain it. If it's not a package +from your vendor, you may install the included version. + +The latest version of bash-completion is always available from +https://github.com/scop/bash-completion. + Enjoy! Chet Ramey |