Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Jilles Tjoelker wrote:
>
> > special treatment of $ { } until expansion time. Now that ${param#word}
> > exists which has its own quoting state for the inner word, that is no
> > longer possible. This was also taken advantage of to allow things like
> > your example "${x
Jilles Tjoelker wrote:
> special treatment of $ { } until expansion time. Now that ${param#word}
> exists which has its own quoting state for the inner word, that is no
> longer possible. This was also taken advantage of to allow things like
> your example "${xxx-"a b c"}"; the original Bourne sh