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Re: case modification operators misbehaviour?


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: case modification operators misbehaviour?
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:23:50 -0500
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Jan Schampera wrote:
> (I used the bashbug command to provide config information)
> 
> Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
> Machine: i486
> OS: linux-gnu
> Compiler: gcc
> Compilation CFLAGS:  -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i486'
> -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i486-pc-linux-gnu'
> -DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale' -DPACKAGE='bash'
> -DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H   -I.  -I../bash -I../bash/include -I../bash/lib
>   -g -O2 -Wall
> uname output: Linux mainserver 2.6.26-1-486 #1 Mon Dec 15 17:32:01 UTC
> 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
> Machine Type: i486-pc-linux-gnu
> 
> Bash Version: 3.2
> Patch Level: 39
> Release Status: release
> 
> Description:
> 
> The case modification operators (for parameter expansion) seem to be
> puzzled.
> 
> Two things I don't understand:
> - it seems to work word-wise (might be due to my misinterpretion of the
> default pattern)

It does work word-by-word, like the emacs-mode editing commands.  I
would like feedback on whether or not that works better than the
alternative.

> - the case shown below (looks like a bug)

Yes, it's a bug.  God knows what I was thinking.

Chet

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Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/




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