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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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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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