Linda Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In my copy of the man pages, Pattern matching is indented an extra
> level making it look like it's under Pathname Expansion and only
> applies there....
Pattern matching applies primarily to pathname expansion; other uses
explicitly refer to its use there:
${parameter/pattern/string}
The pattern is expanded to produce a pattern just as in
pathname expansion. Parameter is expanded and the
longest match of pattern against its value is replaced
with string. [...]
> I wanted to leave "myswitch2" as the only thing left in $p;
p=" $p "
p=${p/* myswitch2 */myswitch}
p=${p/ */}
paul
