On 2/15/11 6:18 AM, Clark J. Wang wrote: > For following script: > > var='[hello' > echo "${var//[/}" > > With bash 4.1 it outputs hello but with 4.2 it outputs [hello . And bash 4.2 > with compat41 on still outputs [hello . Bug? Or Bug fixed?
This is strange. It echoes "hello" on Mac OS X, but "[hello" on Red Hat. I'll have to take a look at where the difference might be. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/