On 2/8/16 2:47 AM, Linda Walsh wrote:
> When you are doing a var expansion using the
> replacement format ${VAR//./.}, is there some way to
> put parens around some part of the expression and reference
> them as in the [[V~re]] RE-matches?
No. Shell patterns do not have backreferences.
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