On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 07:26:16PM -0600, Dennis Williamson wrote: > The user is performing this from a shell prompt. I had him try > > [[ $BASH_VERSION =~ "4\.0" ]] && echo yes || echo no > > which should output "yes" only if he's using Bash 4.0 *and* compat31 > is on.
Gah. Too much trickery and silliness. Just have him put these lines in the script echo "$BASH_VERSION" shopt set -o Gather up ALL of the information at once instead of playing games and trying to discern one piece at a time through a dirty window.
