What has changed in execline

in 2.9.6.1

• skalibs dependency bumped to 2.14.3.0.
• nsss optional dependency bumped to 0.2.0.5.
• Static libraries install in /usr/lib by default.

in 2.9.6.0

• skalibs dependency bumped to 2.14.2.0.
• elglob now has an option to provide its results as one word (including the possibility of netstring encoding).
• importas now has an option that can be used instead of repeating a variable when it is imported with the same name.

in 2.9.5.1

• No functional changes.

in 2.9.5.0

• skalibs dependency bumped to 2.14.1.1.
• backtick now sets the ? environment variable, similarly to foreground, when it can be nonzero.

in 2.9.4.0

• skalibs dependency bumped to 2.14.0.0.
• nsss optional dependency bumped to 0.2.0.4.

in 2.9.3.0

• New -D default option to elgetopt.

in 2.9.2.1

• No functional changes.

in 2.9.2.0

• skalibs dependency bumped to 2.13.1.0.
• New experimental multicall feature, with a new execline binary.

in 2.9.1.0

• skalibs dependency bumped to 2.13.0.0.
• nsss optional dependency bumped to 0.2.0.2.
• New program: eltest.

in 2.9.0.1

• No functional changes.

in 2.9.0.0

• skalibs dependency bumped to 2.12.0.0.
• New options to wait: -o to wait for one of the listed processes, and -a to get the default behaviour.
• wait now exits 99 on timeout.

in 2.8.3.0

• skalibs dependency bumped to 2.11.2.0.
• New options to getpid: -P to get the parent's pid, and -p to get the default behaviour.

in 2.8.2.0

• skalibs dependency bumped to 2.11.1.0.
• nsss optional dependency bumped to 0.2.0.1.
• New options to case.

in 2.8.1.0

• skalibs dependency bumped to 2.11.0.0.
• New binary: case.

in 2.8.0.1

• skalibs dependency bumped to 2.10.0.3.

in 2.8.0.0

• skalibs dependency bumped to 2.10.0.2.
• backtick options have changed slightly, and now propagates subprocess failure by default.

in 2.7.0.1

• skalibs dependency bumped to 2.10.0.1.

in 2.7.0.0

• skalibs dependency bumped to 2.10.0.0.
• nsss optional dependency bumped to 0.1.0.0.
• forstdin now exits 1 on immediate EOF, and only splits on newlines by default.
• forbacktickx, which is a wrapper around forstdin, gets the same changes.
• Input-processing binaries (not substitution binaries!) now chomp by default.
• New -N option to deactivate chomping.
• New default directive to trap, replacing the timeout one, which was ill-suited to that program.

in 2.6.1.1

• skalibs dependency bumped to 2.9.3.0.

in 2.6.1.0

• The envfile format has changed. It is now more expressive and largely compatible with systemd's EnvironmentFile format. The new format is a superset of the old one, so old envfiles should still be understood by the new binary.

in 2.6.0.2

• No functional changes

in 2.6.0.1

• skalibs dependency bumped to 2.9.2.1.

in 2.6.0.0

• skalibs dependency bumped to 2.9.2.0.
• dollarat now has its -0 and -d priority unified. (Rightmost priority.)
• runblock now accepts a command line prefix, given as runblock's own command line.
• New binary: posix-umask.
• cd has been renamed execline-cd.
• umask has been renamed execline-umask.
• At installation time, cd and umask symbolic links are created, pointing to either the posix- or execline- -prefixed version of the commands, depending on whether the --enable-pedantic-posix option was given or not.

in 2.5.3.0

• skalibs dependency bumped to 2.9.1.0.
• --enable-pedantic-posix configure option added.
• posix-cd binary added.
• wait binary made POSIX-compliant.

in 2.5.2.0

• skalibs dependency bumped to 2.9.0.0.

in 2.5.1.0

• skalibs dependency bumped to 2.8.0.0.
• New command: envfile.
• Everything now builds as PIC by default no matter the toolchain's settings. Use the --disable-all-pic configure option to build executables and static libraries as non-PIC.

in 2.5.0.1

• skalibs dependency bumped to 2.7.0.0
• Optional nsss support added.

in 2.5.0.0

• skalibs dependency bumped to 2.6.4.0
• The import command has been removed.

in 2.3.0.4

• skalibs dependency bumped to 2.6.2.0

in 2.3.0.3

• skalibs dependency bumped to 2.6.0.1

in 2.3.0.2

• skalibs dependency bumped to 2.6.0.0
• Commands now exit 127 (not found) or 126 (other error) if they cannot exec into a program they're supposed to.
• The import command will likely disappear very soon. Please switch to importas as soon as possible!

in 2.3.0.1

• skalibs dependency bumped to 2.5.1.0

in 2.3.0.0

• skalibs dependency bumped to 2.5.0.0
• import is now marked as obsolescent. It is recommanded to use the importas command instead.

in 2.2.0.0

• skalibs dependency bumped to 2.4.0.0
• New -I option to backtick and withstdinas
• wait can now be given a timeout

in 2.1.5.0

• skalibs dependency bumped to 2.3.10.0

in 2.1.4.5

• skalibs dependency bumped to 2.3.8.3

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.