Re: Syntax for tab character

[Greg Wooledge]

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:32:09AM -0600, Bill Gradwohl wrote:
> What I want to do is remove all the space and tab characters.

parameter=${parameter//[[:space:]]/}

or

parameter=${paramter//[ $'\t']/}

>From an older bash(1) manual:

       Words of the form $'string' are treated specially.  The word expands to
       string, with backslash-escaped characters replaced as specifed  by  the
       ANSI  C  standard.

Bash 4 manual:

      Words of the form $string are treated specially.  The word expands to
      string, with backslash-escaped characters replaced as specified by the
      ANSI C standard.

Oops... looks like the single quotes vanished somewhere along the way
there.