Oh, I'm an idiot. On Feb 15 14:52, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote: > Hi Brian, > [...] > The currently building cygwin test release 3.5.0-0.174.gd6d4436145b8 > contains the new code. Would you mind to build a dash for testing so we > can see if and how it works?
You don't have to build a new dash. Just downgrading to dash-0.5.12-1 will suffice, of course. D'oh. So, as a first test, here's the result of Andrey's expression with dash-0.5.12-1: $ dash -c '_x=" x"; echo "${_x#${_x%%[![:space:]]*}}"' x Corinna -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple