Missing functionality from BASH ?

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1 total messages Started by Martin Walker Sat, 12 Dec 1992 19:09

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Author: Martin Walker
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 19:09

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I know BASH is supposed to be POSIX compliant and all that, but not having
the POSIX standards documents, I don't know whether the following minor
features of the Korn shell are missing from BASH, or missing from POSIX:

a) CDSPELL. In ksh (or at least on SCO's ksh), if you mis-type a directory
   name, cd finds the closes matching directory, and prompts you for a
   y/n entry. Each time you say no to a directory, it carries on seaching
   down CDPATH for another possible match. Only one the end of all possible
   directories have been refused as options, does cd report that the directory
   does not exist.

b) cd name substitution. If your current directory is, say /usr/spool/uucp
   and you type in 'cd spool lib', ksh changes you to /usr/lib/uucp. ksh
   substitutes the second parameter for that portion of PWD that matches
   the first parameter. Very usefull feature that.

I hope to see these features in the next release of BASH. Congratulations
to GNU on a damn fine shell otherwise.

Kean Johnston.
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