On 2009-01-15, Jan Schampera wrote:
...
> I have another one, maybe my misinterpretion or an unclean documentation:
>
> $ TEXT="Test"
> $ echo ${TEXT^s}
> Test
>
> I expected "TeSt", since the pattern is "s", and the 3rd letter in
> "Test" matches that, and should be changed. Interesting that it works
> with ^^s (for "Tesst" then), but for all "s", of course.
man bash4:
... the ^ and , expansions match and convert only the first
character.
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