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From: Etaoin Shrdlu <shrdlu@×××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Bash 3.2/3.1 compatibility?
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 09:28:35
Message-Id: 200711101013.10471.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Bash 3.2/3.1 compatibility? by Willie Wong
1 On Friday 9 November 2007, Willie Wong wrote:
2
3 > The question:
4 >
5 > Is there a switch that I can use to make bash run in some sort of
6 > compatibility mode for the string comparison? I.e, can I somehow
7 > force bash (in the script) to behave like before?
8
9 Low-tech solution: can't you just install bash 3.1 manually somewhere,
10 create a symlink /bin/bash31 to it, and put #!/bin/bash31 at the
11 beginning of your scripts?
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Re: [gentoo-user] Bash 3.2/3.1 compatibility? Willie Wong <wwong@×××××××××.EDU>