Re: [PLUG] bash 4.4 news

[JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org>]

On 09/20/2016 01:02 AM, Christopher Barry wrote:
> The new bash has some cool options
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/diff/NEWS?id=a0c0a00fc419b7bc08202a79134fcd5bc0427071&utm_source=anzwix
>
> after installing it, do
> man bash
> then search for this:
> /\ \ \ +Parameter\ +transformation
>
> neat new variable manipulators, like
> testarray=(this is my array)
> echo ${testarray[@]@Q}
> 'this' 'is' 'my' 'array'
>
> or
> echo "${testarray[@]@A}"
> declare -a testarray=([0]="this" [1]="is" [2]="my" [3]="array")
>
> or
> testvar="this\tis\tmy\tvar"
> echo "${testvar2@E}"
> this    is      my      var
> or, echo without quotes
> this is my var
>
> plus readarray now allows any delimiter with -d now.

FYI, I finally got the bash 4.4 and readline 7.0 bits up in 
http://www.bashcookbook.com/bashinfo/...

Later,
JP
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