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Re: Negative offset with variable expansion doesn't work
From: |
Andreas Schwab |
Subject: |
Re: Negative offset with variable expansion doesn't work |
Date: |
Tue, 21 May 2002 17:22:10 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2.50 (ia64-suse-linux) |
bero@redhat.de (Bernhard Rosenkraenzer) writes:
|> Reproduced with both 2.04 and 2.05:
|>
|> var=12345
|> echo ${var:-2:2}
$ echo ${var: -2:2}
${var:-foo} means something different.
Andreas.
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