> I suggested using parameter expansion with patterns in > <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2006-02/msg00020.html>:
I must be getting old. I thought you were the one who suggested a new builtin. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/