Re: Syntax for tab character

[Chet Ramey]

Bill Gradwohl wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 13:50 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>> parameter=${parameter//[[:space:]]/}
> I never saw that before. I checked my man bash for version bash-3.2-30
> from Fedora 10 and there is no mention of it. Thanks.

Look at the description of character classes in the Pattern Matching
section.

Chet


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