Bash 4 with new features..

New Features :

http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/bash4

can be downloaded from : here

installation :

$ tar xzf bash-4.0.tar.gz
$ cd bash-4.0
$ ./configure && make && sudo make install

Configure to use the new shell.


$ sudo bash -c "echo /usr/local/bin/bash >> /private/etc/shells"



Enable the new features.

$ echo "shopt -s globstar autocd" >> ~/.bash_profile
$ source ~/.bash_profile

Change Shell

$ chsh

$ echo $BASH_VERSION


Test New features:

$ echo {1..100..2}
1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 29 31 33 35 37 39 41 43 45 47 49 51 53 55 57 59 61 63 65 67 69 71 73 75 77 79 81 83 85 87 89 91 93 95 97 99

$ mkdir -p ~/a/b/c/d/e/f/g/h
$ cd ~/a
$ cd **/h
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