Latest Bash Release Brings ‘Significant New Features’

A new version of the GNU project’s Bourne Again SHell (better known to most of us as Bash) has been released. According the official release announcement Bash 5.3 includes ‘significant new features’ alongside an assortment of other improvements, fixes and compatibility updates. The headline addition is a “new form of command substitution that executes the command in the current shell execution context“. This has two variants: one reads and returns command output as before, while the other punts the result into the REPLY shell variable when it finishes, which from glancing at the full changelog are: Naturally, input and completion also see […]

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