Re: Assignment of $* to a var removes spaces on unset IFS.

[Chet Ramey]

On 8/14/18 8:34 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 09:36:23PM -0400, Bize Ma wrote:
>> Note that 4.4.19 is newer than what is available in
>> https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/
> 
> The current patch level of bash can be obtained by downloading the most
> recent tarball from <http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/> and then applying the
> subsequent patches from <http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/bash-4.4-patches/>,
> or whichever directory is appropriate for the current version.

It's always easier to download

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/snapshot/bash-master.tar.gz

That is the head of the master branch, which is always the current
released version plus all released patches.

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