Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 13:30:05 GMT From: Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/117748: sh(1): Backslash quote fails in pattern for substring processing. Message-ID: <201003141330.o2EDU5KB077138@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/117748; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, rick.seay@yahoo.ca
Cc:
Subject: Re: bin/117748: sh(1): Backslash quote fails in pattern for
substring processing.
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:20:11 +0100
[pattern matching characters in ${v#pat}, ${v%pat} cannot be quoted]
This is easy to fix if bin/57554 is fixed first. Currently double quotes
continue into ${v#pat} like they do into ${v+word}, different from what
the man page says. Once that is fixed, a well-directed EXP_CASE will do
it.
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Jilles Tjoelker
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