`--enable-alias'
Allow alias expansion and include the `alias' and `unalias'
- builtins (*note Aliases::.).
+ builtins (*note Aliases::).
`--enable-arith-for-command'
Include support for the alternate form of the `for' command that
behaves like the C language `for' statement (*note Looping
- Constructs::.).
+ Constructs::).
`--enable-array-variables'
Include support for one-dimensional array shell variables (*note
- Arrays::.).
+ Arrays::).
`--enable-bang-history'
Include support for `csh'-like history substitution (*note History
- Interaction::.).
+ Interaction::).
`--enable-brace-expansion'
Include `csh'-like brace expansion ( `b{a,b}c' ==> `bac bbc' ).
`--enable-command-timing'
Include support for recognizing `time' as a reserved word and for
displaying timing statistics for the pipeline following `time'
- (*note Pipelines::.). This allows pipelines as well as shell
+ (*note Pipelines::). This allows pipelines as well as shell
builtins and functions to be timed.
`--enable-cond-command'
Include support for the `[[' conditional command (*note
- Conditional Constructs::.).
+ Conditional Constructs::).
`--enable-directory-stack'
Include support for a `csh'-like directory stack and the `pushd',
- `popd', and `dirs' builtins (*note The Directory Stack::.).
+ `popd', and `dirs' builtins (*note The Directory Stack::).
`--enable-disabled-builtins'
Allow builtin commands to be invoked via `builtin xxx' even after
`--enable-dparen-arithmetic'
Include support for the `((...))' command (*note Conditional
- Constructs::.).
+ Constructs::).
`--enable-extended-glob'
Include support for the extended pattern matching features
`--enable-help-builtin'
Include the `help' builtin, which displays help on shell builtins
- and variables (*note Bash Builtins::.).
+ and variables (*note Bash Builtins::).
`--enable-history'
Include command history and the `fc' and `history' builtin
- commands (*note Bash History Facilities::.).
+ commands (*note Bash History Facilities::).
`--enable-job-control'
- This enables the job control features (*note Job Control::.), if
+ This enables the job control features (*note Job Control::), if
the operating system supports them.
`--enable-net-redirections'
This enables the special handling of filenames of the form
`/dev/tcp/HOST/PORT' and `/dev/udp/HOST/PORT' when used in
- redirections (*note Redirections::.).
+ redirections (*note Redirections::).
`--enable-process-substitution'
- This enables process substitution (*note Process Substitution::.)
- if the operating system provides the necessary support.
+ This enables process substitution (*note Process Substitution::) if
+ the operating system provides the necessary support.
`--enable-prompt-string-decoding'
Turn on the interpretation of a number of backslash-escaped
`--enable-progcomp'
Enable the programmable completion facilities (*note Programmable
- Completion::.). If Readline is not enabled, this option has no
+ Completion::). If Readline is not enabled, this option has no
effect.
`--enable-readline'
Include support for command-line editing and history with the Bash
- version of the Readline library (*note Command Line Editing::.).
+ version of the Readline library (*note Command Line Editing::).
`--enable-restricted'
Include support for a "restricted shell". If this is enabled,
`--enable-select'
Include the `select' builtin, which allows the generation of simple
- menus (*note Conditional Constructs::.).
+ menus (*note Conditional Constructs::).
`--enable-usg-echo-default'
A synonym for `--enable-xpg-echo-default'.