Shell Scripting @programming.dev Gamma @programming.dev 5mo ago

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

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 Blaze @lemmy.zip 5mo ago

POSIX 2024 has been published

ieeexplore.ieee.org /document/10555529

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Programming @programming.dev mox @lemmy.sdf.org 5mo ago

POSIX.1-2024 has been published

ieeexplore.ieee.org /document/10555529

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1 comments

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 ''.