execline
Software
skarnet.org

What has changed in execline

in 2.1.4.5

• skalibs dependency bumped to 2.3.8.2

in 2.1.4.4

• No functional changes

in 2.1.4.3

• No functional changes

in 2.1.4.2

• GNU make dependency pushed back to 3.81
• skalibs dependency bumped to 2.3.8.0

in 2.1.4.1

• skalibs dependency bumped to 2.3.7.1

in 2.1.4.0

• New EXECLINE_BLOCK_END_STRING and EXECLINE_BLOCK_QUOTE_STRING macros
• New command: withstdinas. It's a simplification of backtick, which is now implemented as a combination of pipeline and withstdinas.
• Other new command: getcwd.

in 2.1.3.1

• skalibs dependency bumped to 2.3.6.1

in 2.1.3.0

• skalibs dependency bumped to 2.3.6.0
• New configure option: --shebangdir for script creation automation.

in 2.1.2.2

• skalibs dependency bumped to 2.3.5.1

in 2.1.2.1

• Bugfix release, no changes

in 2.1.2.0

• skalibs dependency bumped to 2.3.4.0
• new command: trap

in 2.1.1.1

• skalibs dependency bumped to 2.3.3.0
• execlineb parser made into a library function, for easier inclusion in other programs

in 2.1.1.0

• forstdin added
• forbacktickx rewritten as a wrapper around pipeline and forstdin

in 2.1.0.0

• skalibs dependency bumped to 2.3.1.0
• foreground now sets the ? environment variable to 256 plus the signal number when its block was killed by a signal (in previous releases it used 126).
• New rules for exit codes of forx, loopwhilex, forbacktickx
• New -e option to loopwhilex, deprecating the -x option.

in 2.0.2.1

• skalibs dependency bumped to 2.3.0.0

in 2.0.2.0

• skalibs dependency bumped to 2.2.1.0
• New command: fdswap
• New -D option to backtick

in 2.0.1.1

• skalibs dependency bumped to 2.2.0.0
• Parallel build fix

in 2.0.1.0

• skalibs dependency bumped to 2.1.0.0
• -u option added to import and importas

in 2.0.0.0

• The build system has completely changed. It is now a standard ./configure && make && sudo make install build system. See the enclosed INSTALL file for details.
• slashpackage is not activated by default.
• shared libraries are neither built nor used by default.
• skalibs dependency bumped to 2.0.0.0
• The obsolete -E option to backtick, forx and forbacktickx is not supported anymore.
• multisubstitute does not support the "backtick" directive anymore.