BASH 4.0 Released

An anonymous reader writes "The widely used Bourne-Again Shell (BASH) version 4.0 is out. The new major release fixes several remaining bugs in the 3.x releases, and introduces a bunch of new features. The most notable new features are associative arrays, improvements to the programmable completion functionality, case-modifying word expansions, co-processes, support for the `**' special glob pattern, and additions to the shell syntax and redirections. The shell has been changed to be more rigorous about parsing commands inside command substitutions, fixing one piece of POSIX non-compliance. Most of us will probably wait for the distros to test the new version and upgrade gradually, but you always have the option of grabbing the source and compiling it yourself. Enjoy."

Comments

Re:looks like it still loses history

[MikeBabcock]

Log in twice (A) and (B) as the same user, do something in session (A), then log out of (A).

Now check 'history' as (B), obviously the first session's command isn't there.

Open another session, (C) and check its history. It is just as you'd expect. Now type a simple command into session (B) and log out of it. What do you think the history is?

Check history on (C) still logged-in. Log out of (C) and check history on a new login and you'll see that the history matches (C) inherited from (A), no record of (B) happening.