BASH 3.0 Released

I *love* BASH.  Its the 'baby duck syndrome' - BASH was the first UNIX shell I used that solved all my problems.  At one time, I knew it inside and out.  I had 10-20K .bashrc config and alias files.  It corrected my spelling.  I aliased all my common typos, so even when I fat fingered a command it worked.

Life was good.

Now, 20 years later there is a 3.0 release.

Maybe its time to run a Linux desktop.  Ahh, if I only had the time.

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The first public release of bash-3.0 is now available with the URLs

ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/bash-3.0.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bash/bash-3.0.tar.gz

and from the usual GNU mirror sites.

This tar file does not include the formatted documentation
(postscript, dvi, html, and nroffed versions of the manual pages);
that may be retrieved with the URLs

ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/bash-doc-3.0.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bash/bash-doc-3.0.tar.gz

When unpacking the documentation, make sure to extract the tar file
in the bash-3.0 source directory.