On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 03:59:40PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: [snip] > If you can use ${x%%y}, ${x#y} etc. to achieve the same effect (you > often can), you get the best of both worlds. I believe they're > specified by POSIX; certainly, current dash supports them, and they're > in the SUS.
SuSv3 -- POSIX:2001 SuSv4 -- POSIX:2008 So if they're in SuS, they're specified by POSIX :) While I've read the SuSv3 quite thoroughly, I have yet to study the SuSv4, so I dunno how big the differences are, and if any of them are important. Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall <t...@debian.org> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ // Diamond-white roses of fire // \) http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/ (/ Beautiful hoar-frost (/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111001002700.gk16...@suiko.acc.umu.se