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Re: C-style escapes within substitution expansion
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: C-style escapes within substitution expansion |
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Fri, 07 Mar 2014 21:08:35 -0500 |
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On 3/7/14, 2:42 PM, David Sines wrote:
> Bash Version: 4.3
> Patch Level: 0
> Release Status: release
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> Description:
> When invoked as sh, bash 4.3.0 doesn't interpret C-style escapes
> within double-quoted substitution expansions ("${var/$'what'/ever}").
I think this is a bug; this is the wrong place for posix-mode treatment of
single quotes inside double-quoted word expansions. Here's a patch that
makes posix mode behave like the default in this case.
Chet
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parse-ansi-expand.patch
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