Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> writes: > And testing: > > imadev:~$ file=$HOME/x > imadev:~$ link=$(command ls -l -- "$file"; printf x) > imadev:~$ link=${link%$'\nx'} > imadev:~$ remove="$file -> " > imadev:~$ file=${link#*$remove}
This lacks a pair of quotes (${link#*"$remove"}). Testcase: 'x[a]' -> 'y'. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."