Thus spoke David Douthitt:

> Tom Eastep wrote:
>
> > I believe that the problem here is that Eiger2Beta uses ash for sh and
> > ash's handling of at least the ${<variable>%%<pattern>} shell construct is
> > broken:
> >
> > Here's what should happen (/bin/sh from Oxygen):
>
> Well, Oxygen uses ash also....

Nod -- I figured that out after I posted.

> I did try to compile (and did compile)
> a newer version of ash with patches from Erik Andersen, the chief
> busybox maintainer, and patches from others.
>
> > The "ash" from RH7 also shows this incorrect behavior.
>
> I'm surprised to hear that.  I tried the ash from RH 6.2, and it
> doesn't understand ${server%:*} or ${server%%:*} syntax.... /bin/ash
> version 0.2 ...
>

Neither does the one from RH7 -- my mistake.

-Tom
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