Re: Is direxpand available yet (to fix dirspell)?

[Greg Wooledge]

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