On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 6:33 PM Lawrence Velázquez <v...@larryv.me> wrote:
> > On Dec 8, 2020, at 3:52 PM, Testing Purposes < > raspberry.teststr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > ----------------------- > > bash --readline-version > > This instance of GNU Bash is using the GNU Readline library, version 8.1 > > ----------------------- > > > > That would certainly be a more intuitive and human-friendly method. > > Such information could just be added to the output of bash --version > (or perhaps as a shell variable à la BASH_VERSION). There is no > need for a separate command-line option. > > vq Subconsciously, I must have regarded Bash's version output as almost sacred — so I honestly didn't even think of that. But yes, I agree! That would be the most elegant solution by far! (And, I assume, fairly easy to implement.)
