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Re: Pattern substitution insensitive to case?
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Pattern substitution insensitive to case? |
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Wed, 11 Sep 2013 09:19:16 -0400 |
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On 9/11/13 5:12 AM, Davide Baldini wrote:
> Hi,
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> Bash doesn't seem to provide a handy way to perform search-and-replace on
> strings in a case-insensitive manner.
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> The parameter expansion "${parameter/pattern/string}" is not influenced by
> the shell options "nocaseglob" and "nocasematch", at least in Bash version
> 4.2.37. Is this intended?
Yes, neither option applies to pattern replacement word expansion. I will
consider that extension for a future version of bash.
Chet
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