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| From: | Chet Ramey |
| Subject: | Re: Inconsistent quote and escape handling in substitution part of parameter expansions. |
| Date: | Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:46:29 -0500 |
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On 2/28/12 12:05 PM, Steven W. Orr wrote:
>> Look consider this
>> test=teststring
>>
>>
>> echo "${test//str/"dddd"}"
>
> This makes no sense.
It does when you consider that Posix says (still) that quotes inside
the ${} must match and affect how the closing `}' is found.
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