Might I put forth a suggestion?
I would like to suggest that the "0" be required after a
"\" when expanding octal or hex values.
It would be consistent to allow hex values by using
"\0xHH", but it is confusingto POSIX compatible scripts
for "\1" to be accepted as an octal sequence.
Perhaps the
What is supposed to be the difference between the directories
of bash-release/doc and the separate tar,
bash-release-doc ?
It seems like -- looking through my local dist, it basically uses
the former for the notes and documentation and don't bother with
the separate "-doc" tar.
It sorta looks li