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#foo works with sh



On May 18, 2013 10:58:30 AM Quartz <quartz@sneakertech.com> wrote:
>
> >> newfoo=${foo:0:51}
> >>
> >
> > That works for bash, not sh.
>
> Ok granted, but I don't think that ${#foo} is straight sh either, so I 
> assumed "things bash/tcsh/ksh/whatever accept when running in sh emulation" 
> were ok.
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