Vincent Lefevre <vincent-o...@vinc17.net> wrote:
> > > but the other shells regard them as special:
> > >
> > > $ foo=abcdef; echo "${foo#'ab'}"
> > > cdef
> > >
> > > So, is this also unspecified like double quotes? Or should it
> > > be specified that they are special, in which case, dash / ash
> > > are buggy?
> >
> > Dash conforms to the standard if you execute it as "sh".
>
> No, it doesn't. Try it. :)
Well it behaves the same as the reference implementation /usr/xpg4/bin/sh
which is a "pimped" ksh88.
Jörg
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