On 9/17/16 7:38 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Chet Ramey wrote:
>
>>> But please explain (character by character) why you create an output that
>>> is in
>>> conflict with the reference implementation (a patched ksh88).
>>
>> `Character by character'? Really?
>>
>> (And obviously the so-called `
Chet Ramey wrote:
> > But please explain (character by character) why you create an output that
> > is in
> > conflict with the reference implementation (a patched ksh88).
>
> `Character by character'? Really?
>
> (And obviously the so-called `reference implementation' doesn't reflect
> the int
Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > > but the other shells regard them as special:
> > >
> > > $ foo=abcdef; echo "${foo#'ab'}"
> > > cdef
> > >
> > > So, is this also unspecified like double quotes? Or should it
> > > be specified that they are special, in which case, dash / ash
> > > are buggy?
> >
>
Geoff Clare wrote:
> > in dash 0.5.8-2.3 and in BusyBox v1.22.1 sh (ash):
> >
> > $ foo=abcdef; echo "${foo#'ab'}"
> > abcdef
> >
> > but the other shells regard them as special:
> >
> > $ foo=abcdef; echo "${foo#'ab'}"
> > cdef
> >
> > So, is this also unspecified like double quotes? Or shou
Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> I cannot see in Issue 7 how they are supposed to be special here.
> And
>
> http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=221
>
> doesn't seem to change anything. At least, they are *not* special
> in dash 0.5.8-2.3 and in BusyBox v1.22.1 sh (ash):
This is a patched version f
