On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 9:20 AM, Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote:
> 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. > > I tested bash 4.2 on Debian 6.0. And bash 4.1 behaves the same on Linux and Mac OS X (10.4 PPC). > 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/ > -- Clark