Re: updating shopt compat settings to include current version

[Chet Ramey]

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On 10/16/15 11:37 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:

> unset BASH_COMPAT
> shopt -u compat31 compat32 compat40 compat41
> shopt -s compat42 2>/dev/null || :
> 
> to set shell_compatibility_level to 42 on bash versions >= bash-4.2.
> 
> (this needs the attached patch for bash-4.3 to fix a typo in shopt.def)

And, of course, you can just add

BASH_COMPAT=42

at the end to get around the unpatched bash-4.3 bug.

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