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Re: [bash-testers] Re: case modification operators misbehaviour?


From: Chris F.A. Johnson
Subject: Re: [bash-testers] Re: case modification operators misbehaviour?
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 06:14:40 +0000
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On 2009-01-15, Jan Schampera wrote:
...
> I have another one, maybe my misinterpretion or an unclean documentation:
>
> $ TEXT="Test"
> $ echo ${TEXT^s}
> Test
>
> I expected "TeSt", since the pattern is "s", and the 3rd letter in
> "Test" matches that, and should be changed. Interesting that it works
> with ^^s (for "Tesst" then), but for all "s", of course.

man bash4:

     ... the ^ and , expansions match and convert only the first
     character.

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