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RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-4.1.13-6
- From: "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]" <BBuchbinder at niaid dot nih dot gov>
- To: "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 14:18:48 +0000
- Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-4.1.13-6
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- References: <announce dot 54265593 dot 3030307 at byu dot net>
Eric Blake (cygwin) sent the following at Saturday, September 27, 2014 2:14 AM
>I also turned on the (undocumented) 'bash --wordexp' mode (actually,
>that happened in 4.1.12-5, although I failed to mention it at the time),
>which allows the C library call wordexp() to now function.
From a user standpoint, why would one want to use --wordexp? What is the
effect of turning on this mode?
Thanks,
- Barry
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