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Informative and interesting article, thanks for sharing.
Quite a few of these POSIX improvements were new to me, even though it turns out that they already exist in the GNU versions of the tools.
Big stuff
-euo pipefail
now being a posix standard is really awesome, as well as readlink and realpath (didn’t even know these last two were non-standard).Slightly off-topic, but that is some interesting blogging platform.
Title is misleading. Article starts with a gigantic useless text about “In the 1950s”.
The article starts with a table of contents with the change highlights as the first item.