Article 6YFQ4 Bash-5.3-release available

Bash-5.3-release available

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jake
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The GNU project's Bourne AgainSHell (Bash) has released version 5.3, with some significant newfeatures, including some from the associated Readline 8.3 release, which providescommand-line editing and other features for Bash and lots of otherprograms. Bash 5.3 has a "new form of command substitution that executes the command inthe current shell execution context", pathname-completion sortingwill be handled based on the GLOBSORT shell variable, generatedcompletions can go to a shell variable instead of to stdout, the sourcecode has been updated to C23, and more. Meanwhile:
Readline has new features as well. There is a new option that allowscase-insensitive searching, a new command that executes a named readlinecommand, and a new command that exports possible word completions in aspecified format for consumption by another process.
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