5 mo. ago • 92%

New 2024 POSIX Standards specify features for sh and standard shell utilities

https:// ieeexplore.ieee.org /document/10555529

The document itself is paywalled like all the POSIX specifications, so here are some highlights courtesy of some comments at HackerNews, especially from a-french-anon.

readlink and realpath
find -print0, xargs -0 and read -d
find -iname
sed -E
set -o pipefail
$' ' strings

Linux @programming.dev POSIX 2024 has been published

Programming @programming.dev POSIX.1-2024 has been published

Hacker News @lemmy.smeargle.fans POSIX.1-2024 is published

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IMO the NUL-delimited options are by far the biggest win for shell scripting. $' ' will be the most commonly used addition, but "$(printf '...')" was always an option before. You don't really have an alternative read -d ''.

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