On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 10:26:19PM +0000, John Caruso wrote: > I checked the > bash source but couldn't suss out (in a brief look) how minor bash > versions are accounted--there's no 4.2.10 or 4.2.24 source, just 4.2 > source plus a bunch of patches, and it's not clear if those patches have > made it into an official bash release or which release number that is.
Download bash-4.2.tar.gz and then download bash42-001, bash42-002, and so on. Extract the tarball, then apply all of the patches to it. Thus: gzip -dc bash-4.2.tar.gz | tar xf - cd bash-4.2 for i in ../bash42-*; do patch -p0 < "$i"; done
