Re: [Parameter substring expansion not work for negative offset]

2013-09-09 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Sep 08, 2013 at 11:21:56AM -0500, Dennis Williamson wrote: > The man page says "Note that a negative offset must be separated from the > colon by at least one space..." Enclosing the negative offset in parentheses also works. The reason you must use either parentheses or spaces between th

Re: [Parameter substring expansion not work for negative offset]

2013-09-09 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Sep 08, 2013 at 11:21:56AM -0500, Dennis Williamson wrote: >> The man page says "Note that a negative offset must be separated from the >> colon by at least one space..." > > Enclosing the negative offset in parentheses also works. > > The reason you must use either