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@@ -117,6 +117,12 @@ Changes since 5.0.0
Running fn writes "hello" to logfile. In older versions of the shell
it would create an empty file at the point of definition.
+- Global aliases can be created for syntactic tokens such as command
+ separators (";", "&", "|", "&&", "||"), redirection operators, etc.
+ Use at your own risk! The POSIX_ALIASES option is interpreted more
+ strictly to prevent expansion of these and other alias names containing
+ quotes, glob metacharacters, parameter references, etc.
+
Changes between 4.2 and 5.0.0
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