Re: [ping] declare -c still undocumented.

[Chet Ramey]

On 11/13/20 3:50 PM, L A Walsh wrote:
> On 2020/11/13 09:01, Chet Ramey wrote:
> > On 11/12/20 6:19 PM, Léa Gris wrote:
> > > declare -c to capitalize first character of string in variable 
> >
> > Thanks for the reminder. I keep forgetting to turn this off. It's too late
> > for bash-5.1, but I have it tagged to flip to disabled by default in
> > config-top.h in bash-5.2.
> ---
>     It is replaced with something else?

There's nothing to directly replace `declare -c', which was a bad idea to
begin with. You can use the new @u parameter transformation operator to
replace ${v~}. The ability to use the pattern in @{v~[pattern]} wasn't a
great idea either.


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