34.3. Bash, version 4

Chet Ramey announced Version 4 of Bash on the 20th of February, 2009. This release has a number of significant new features, as well as some important bugfixes.

Among the new goodies:

Notes

[1]

Copyright 1995-2009 by Chester Ramey.

[2]

This only works with pipes and certain other special files.

[3]

But only in conjunction with readline, i.e., from the command-line.

[4]

And while you're at it, consider fixing the notorious piped read problem.