Genrc version 2.0

Item posted by Sergey Poznyakoff <gray> on Thu Mar 20 13:07:03 2025.

Genrc version 2.0 is available for download. New in this release:

• Environment variables are no longer used by default.
• Command line processing rewritten from scratch.
• New option -C DIR: change to DIR.
• Support for PCRE2.

To instruct genrc to read its settings from environment variables, use the --env option. You can limit the set of variables to use by supplying their names as an argument to that option, e.g.: --env=GENRC_COMMAND,GENRC_PROGRAM.

This is incompatible change. If you use GENRC*_ environment variables, please upgrade your scripts.

Since previous versions of the program used environment by default, in order to facilitate upgrading, genrc will issue a warning, if it is run without the --env option and any of the supported environment variables are set.