Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 20:45:53 +0200
From: Johan van Selst <johans@stack.nl>
To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Problem in bin/sh stripping the * character through ${expansion%}
Message-ID: <20090806184553.GA68649@mud.stack.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20090806183846.GA68029@mud.stack.nl>
References: <4A7B1DB0.1040602@FreeBSD.org> <20090806183846.GA68029@mud.stack.nl>
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Johan van Selst wrote:
> When I tried it myself, I automatically typed quotes, which does work
> var="${var%\*}"
Really should learn to read better: this in fact procudes 'foo'
rather than 'foo\' in the given example case. Again, not like bash.
Johan
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