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New 2024 POSIX Standards specify features for sh and standard shell utilities

ieeexplore.ieee.org /document/10555529

The document itself is paywalled like all the POSIX specifications, so here are some highlights courtesy of some comments at HackerNews, especially from a-french-anon.

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POSIX.1-2024 has been published
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POSIX.1-2024 is published
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  • IMO the NUL-delimited options are by far the biggest win for shell scripting. $' ' will be the most commonly used addition, but "$(printf '...')" was always an option before. You don't really have an alternative read -d ''.