William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca> wrote:
> By popular demand, pre-compiled binary-only package (Linux x86 platform
> only) is now avaiable:
> http://home.eol.ca/~parkw/bashdiff/b....19-i486-1.tgz
>
> Essentially, it's compiled without links to external libraries, namely
> PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, GDBM, and Expat, ie.
> ./configure --disable-postgresql --disable-mysql --disable-sqlite
> --disable-gdbm --disable-expat
> So, if you run official Bash-2.05b/3.0, then you can also run my patched
> shell.
>
> To extract the tarball... If you run Slackware, then you know what to
> do, ie.
> installpkg bashdiff-basic-1.19-i486-1.tgz
> If not, then you need to type
> cd /
> tar -xzf bashdiff-basic-1.19-i486-1.tgz
> You'll find all the goodies under /usr/local/.
>
>
> To play with the main shell,
> /usr/local/bin/bash # you are in my shell
> exit # back to your original shell

I forgot. There is all-in-one executable
/usr/local/bin/bash+william
which includes all loadable builtins, so that you don't have to do
enable -f ...
But, other than that, it's the same as '/usr/local/bin/bash'.

>
> To play with loadable builtins,
> ldconfig # as root
> enable -f /usr/local/lib/william.so \
> arraycat arraymap arrayunzip arrayzip basp binary \
> isnumber match pp_append pp_collapse pp_flip pp_overwrite \
> pp_pop pp_push pp_read pp_rotateleft pp_rotateright pp_set \
> pp_sort pp_swap pp_transpose pp_trim pp_uniq sscanf strcat \
> strcmp strcpy strlen tonumber tostring vplot
> You can do this in Bash-2.05b, Bash-3.0, or in the newly extracted
> BashDiff shell. As long as you have 'enable -f'.
>
> To get help,
> help arraycat arraymap arrayunzip arrayzip basp binary \
> isnumber match pp_append pp_collapse pp_flip pp_overwrite \
> pp_pop pp_push pp_read pp_rotateleft pp_rotateright pp_set \
> pp_sort pp_swap pp_transpose pp_trim pp_uniq sscanf strcat \
> strcmp strcpy strlen tonumber tostring vplot
> help '${var|' '{a..b}' '<<+'
> help try case for while until raise read echo

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William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca>, Toronto, Canada
ThinFlash: Linux thin-client on USB key (flash) drive
http://home.eol.ca/~parkw/thinflash.html
BashDiff: Extended Bash shell
http://freshmeat.net/projects/bashdiff/