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Title: New Bash 2.01 in S.u.S.E. Linux 5.0

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New Bash 2.01 in S.u.S.E. Linux 5.0

Applicable to
S.u.S.E. version: as of 5.0

Symptom:

You get error messages when running Bash scripts, even though they previously worked fine.

Cause:

The new Bash 2.0 is included in S.u.S.E. Linux as of version 5.0. Previously Bash 1.14 was used. The new Bash has some new features and interprets some old features differently.

If Bash is started as /bin/sh, the POSIX mode is activated by default. This mode forbids certain constructs that were possible in earlier Bash versions,although they are not strictly POSIX conform.

We know of the following differences:

Differences

Solution:

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Keywords: BASH, 2.01, SHELL, COMMAND LINE, INPUT LINE, 5.0, INTERPRETER

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