Re: Portability of shell parameter expansions (${word%pattern} and friends)?

[Akim Demaille]

Le 6 nov. 07 à 15:33, Benoit Sigoure a écrit :

> On Nov 6, 2007, at 3:25 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
>
> > * Benoit Sigoure wrote on Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 03:13:07PM CET:
> > > Anyone aware of any portability issue with shell parameter  
> > > expansions?
> >
> > Solaris 10 /bin/sh knows neither
> >  ${foo#bar}
> >  ${foo%bar}
> >  ${#foo}
>
> Grrr, Solaris 10 is such a pain in the ass.

As a punishment for being too naive about shell portability
you, Benoît, just won the right to extend autoconf.texi :P