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Bash 3.0 Released
qazwsx789 writes "The first public release of bash-3.0 is now available via ftp and from the usual GNU mirror sites. For the official release notes by the author, Chet Ramey, check his usenet post."
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There is. Try zenity.
Doesn't seem to be much changed given the version number increase. [[ =~ ]] can match regexes and it can do zsh style {1..3} expansions. Improved multibyte support too. There were bigger changes in some of the 2.0x updates.
insightful? please at least give a few reasons why zsh is better. I use bash, but i'm open to other possibilities.
Why use a middleman when you have access to the source?
Meh.
Why a major version release with only minor point-release changes?
From what I can tell, bash 3.0 doesn't do anything that 2.x didn't do. Except, no doubt, break every script in my system if I were to install it.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
"It's nice to see yet more contributions from Apple to the OSS community."
:)
Right on, brother. (This is not bashing apple before i get started!) They have done something that no one else in the *nix world has done: shit-hot gui. People can blather about this and that, but to deny that Apple has created one of the most user-friendly, beautiful, slick gui's for *nix is crazy. I'd like to continue seeing Apple release more help to OSS. Keep the real money makers to themselves (for now), but allow more dev's to release usefull changes back to the community that helped build it ya know?
You are 100% correct that it's nice to see them making another move like this...even if it was a lil' one
I'm wondering why it's in the "LINUX" section of
Trolling is a art,
Bash is a portable tool that existed long before Linux did. It is not specific or particular to Linux. So why in the world does this get posted under the category of Linux ?
The same can happen using the shell.
When you run a binary from the shell are you ever sure what files it's accessing?
If you log it, sure -- but there are tools to do that in the GUI, too.
"Would it kill you to put down the toilet seat?" -- Maya Angelou
This story comes under category Linux, wonders why? As we know bash runs under all *nix :)
The important thing is not to stop questioning --Albert Einstein.
Insightful? You morons, it's a joke.
Sure, they created a great gui. But when is it going to be ported to x86?
^^
My post started with +2 (cause I are 1337). Then I got an "Interesting", two "Overrated"s, a "Funny", and most recently a "Flamebait".
Come on, mods: can I have an "Insightful" and an "Underrated", too?
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
But what if I want to do:You gonna write a custom GUI app for everything? The nice thing about the command line is that it's "language oriented" rather than "picture oriented." Rather than pointing at what I want and clicking, I tell the computer what I want using a language.
It's the same reason we don't code with a point & click interface (save for VB, but the point and click still only got you so far).
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"
- Charles Darwin
It broke a script in 1 package, and was fixed in about 40minutes. What the hell are you talking about?
Please explain to me what precludes a GUI from offering an advanced search tool, in which you can open up a property info dialog for the results and do bulk permission/property changes for. (Hint: nothing stops this from happening.)
What you will end up with is a huge dialog with all kinds of checkboxes and text fields for the same things the command has. Making it more irritating and slower for the purpose of turning it into a shiny GUI, no thanks.
Even if you somehow make a magically really useful GUI widget that makes me enter all the necessary information in a completely natural and quick way and achieve perfection, I cannot believe you can do that automatically for every command ever. Which means there'll be a neat widget for some commands, and the command line for the rest.
That way lies hell. We have a perfectly good command line, thank you. If you want to make GUI frontends, perfectly fine, but don't expect us to use them.
I believe posters are recognized by their sig. So I made one.
Seems like an odd word to use to describe free software. Try not to lip-sync to the jargon, dude.
The "cue the foo posts in 3, 2, 1..." posts will commence with no subsequent foo posts in 3, 2, 1...
rm -rf /*
But seriously, a command line user who can touch type at a decent speed can appear like Commander Data -- tacka tacka tacka as stuff scrolls by on the screen at an amazing rate. It's a skill, and if you don't have it, pointing and clicking might be just as fast or faster than having to look stuff up and then hunting and pecking. But if you use the computer alot, command line + touch typing is a set of skills worth investing some time developing.
It exposes that Gentoo is broken. There is a difference.
What I would like to see Bash do is command completion a la 4DOS:
If I have a command
foo bar baz
in my history, and I type
foo<TAB>
It complete that with the most recent command starting with "foo", and if I type
foo<UP>
it will cycle through the commands in history that start with "foo".
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