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Re:Bash 5.0 released by h1d on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @01:15AM (#18853674)
What's the problem running it on a 10 year old bash?
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Re:Bash 5.0 released by _ZeD_ on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @01:48AM (#18853799)
all the 10 years of news and bug fixes?
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Re:Bash 5.0 released by h1d on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @04:01AM (#18854261)
Which is? And I doubt those scripts rely in the 'new' features out of some 30 years old history.
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Re:Bash 5.0 released by faho on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @04:00PM (#18859649)
bash 4 introduced associative arrays (aka dictionaries or hashmaps).

Which, while you can do without, is a nice feature that makes some things easier.

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