Re: Bash parameter expansion (remove largest trailing match, remove largest leading match, pattern replacement) does not work

[Bruce Lilly]

On Sat, Aug 29, 2020 at 9:12 PM Lawrence Velázquez <v...@larryv.me> wrote:

> (a) $'...' is not POSIX. For instance, dash does not recognize it.

dash also doesn't have adequate pattern matching for the example
task (building a path while ensuring no empty components); it
has no way to specify one-or-more (or zero-or-more) occurrences
of a pattern such as a slash.