intended to be a conformant implementation of the IEEE POSIX Shell and Tools specification (IEEE Working Group 1003.2). Bash can be configured to be POSIX-conformant by default. OPTIONS In addition to the single-character shell options documented in the description of the set builtin command, bash in

be notified by the kernel of an event occurring in the system. special builtin A shell builtin command that has been classified as special by the POSIX 1003.2 standard. token A sequence of characters considered a single unit by the shell. It is either a word or an operator. word A token that is

pport for the 11 conditional command. (see Section 3.2.4.2 [Condi- tional Constructs], page 10). - -enable-cond-regexp Include support for matching POSIX regular expressions using the `="' binary operator in the EL conditional command. (see Section 3.2.4.2 [Conditional Con- structs], page 10). - -ena