On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:32:09AM -0600, Bill Gradwohl wrote:
> What I want to do is remove all the space and tab characters.
parameter=${parameter//[[:space:]]/}
or
parameter=${paramter//[ $'\t']/}
>From an older bash(1) manual:
Words of the form $'string' are treated specially. The word expands to
string, with backslash-escaped characters replaced as specifed by the
ANSI C standard.
Bash 4 manual:
Words of the form $string are treated specially. The word expands to
string, with backslash-escaped characters replaced as specified by the
ANSI C standard.
Oops... looks like the single quotes vanished somewhere along the way
there.
