Hanno Böck <[email protected]> writes:
> This is a reduced sample:
> export a='x'; echo "${a/x/~}"
>
> On bash 4.3 this will result in the user's homedir path. On 4.2 this
> will result in a ~.
> If one wants to get a "~" char there seems no easy portable way to do
> so. Using escaping with \~ works in 4.3, but not in 4.2.
t='~'; echo "${a/x/$t}"
Andreas.
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