What's new in Advanced Bash Scripting Guide 6.4
Aug 30, 2011
- Two important example scripts added: an instructive and interesting morse code trainer and a Gronsfeld Cipher script.
- There is also quite a bit of new material and bugfixes.
New in Advanced Bash Scripting Guide 6.3 (May 2, 2011)
New in Advanced Bash Scripting Guide 6.2 (Mar 18, 2010)
- In "Special Characters" chapter,
- At "comma operator" entry, fixed first example(comment spread over two lines).
- In the "Tests" chapter,
- In the "Other Comparison Operators" section,
- Fixed up comment at "==" entry.
- Updated "ex18.sh" example.
- Multiple fixups submitted by Ramses Rodriguez Martinez.
- In the "Variables Revisited" chapter:
- In "Parameter Substitution" section:fixed typo in example at "${var##Pattern}" entry.
- In "Declare" subsection: fixed "declare | grep HOME" example.
- In "Here Documents" chapter:
- Added comment on colon being optional in "commentblock.sh" example.
- Broke out section 9.5, "Indirect References," as Chapter 27.
- Moved "The Double-Parentheses Construct" to "Operations and Related Topics" chapter.
- Moved "Operator Precedence" sectionto "Operations and Related Topics" chapter.
- Created new "Manipulating Variables" chapter out of two sections of old "Variables Revisited" chapter.
- Revised examples at two entries.
- Miscellaneous fixups of scripts and typos in text.
New in Advanced Bash Scripting Guide 6.0 (Mar 25, 2009)
- Fairly extensive coverage of the version 4.0 Bash release.
- A great deal of other new material and bugfixes.
- This is a very important update.
New in Advanced Bash Scripting Guide 5.6 (Jan 23, 2009)
- This release adds two important example scripts: Knight's Tour and Magic Squares.
- It has bugfixes and miscellaneous new material.
New in Advanced Bash Scripting Guide 5.5 (Nov 24, 2008)
- Many bugs were fixed.
- Additionally, there is a great deal of new material.
- Editing was done for increased consistency.
- Two new example scripts were added.