On Friday, February 18, 2011 23:17:11 Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 2/18/11 9:06 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > this simple code no longer works in bash-4.2:
> > $ f=abc; echo ${f##""a}
> > abc
> > same goes for ${f//""a} and ${f%%""c}, and perhaps more operations
>
> One more: everything that calls getpa
On 2/18/11 9:06 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> this simple code no longer works in bash-4.2:
> $ f=abc; echo ${f##""a}
> abc
> same goes for ${f//""a} and ${f%%""c}, and perhaps more operations
One more: everything that calls getpattern().
> removing the quotes, or quoting the single char in questio
this simple code no longer works in bash-4.2:
$ f=abc; echo ${f##""a}
abc
same goes for ${f//""a} and ${f%%""c}, and perhaps more operations
removing the quotes, or quoting the single char in question, makes it work:
$ f=abc; echo ${f##a} ${f##"a"}
bc bc
the original bug report uses variables in
