I guess if --plus is supposed to cover all of bash's parameter expansion capabilites, these should work also:

   larryp-MBP:parallel larry$ x=abcabcdefdef; echo $x ${x/#abc/ABC}
   abcabcdefdef ABCabcdefdef
   larryp-MBP:parallel larry$ x=abcabcdefdef; echo $x ${x/%def/DEF}
   abcabcdefdef abcabcdefDEF
   larryp-MBP:parallel larry$ echo abcabcdefdef | parallel --plu echo {} 
{/#abc/ABC}
   abcabcdefdef abcabcdefdef
   larryp-MBP:parallel larry$ echo abcabcdefdef | parallel --plu echo {} 
{/%def/DEF}
   abcabcdefdef abcabcdefdef

Thanks,
· Larry

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