On Sun 04/02/2024 at 19:45, David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: ... > According to this man page for csh (but includes tcsh): > > https://linux.die.net/man/1/csh > > the "a" that modifies modifiers is a "[feature] of tcsh not found > in most csh(1) implementations (specifically, the 4.4BSD csh)". It > appears that bash supports it syntactically, but not its semantics. > I'm not sure why you mentioned this shell detail specifically.
I was just highlighting a way to see if behaviour differs between bash "proper" and script running in bash. cf. "a (+) Apply the following modifier as many times as possible to a single word ..." https://linux.die.net/man/1/csh "a Cause changes to be applied over the entire event line ..." https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#Word-Designators Thanks Gareth