Re: grammatical error in manual

2019-01-17 Thread Chet Ramey
On 1/16/19 11:17 AM, Robert Swan wrote: > Hello; > > Section 3.5.3 Shell Parameter Expansion in the manual has a repeated phrase in > the ${parameter%word} description, "If the pattern matches If the pattern > matches". Thanks for the report. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to le

grammatical error in manual

2019-01-16 Thread Robert Swan
Hello; Section 3.5.3 Shell Parameter Expansion in the manual has a repeated phrase in the ${parameter%word} description, "If the pattern matches If the pattern matches". ${parameter%word}${parameter%%word} The word is expanded to produce a pattern and matched according to the rules described bel