> From: Glenn Fowler <gsf at research.att.com>
> On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 18:50:25 +0100 Joerg Schilling wrote:
> I sent back a request for details on /usr/bin/ksh and
> how it could complain about 'bad substitution' for !
>
> I have access to a solaris10 sparc machine that
> has /usr/bin/ksh == ksh88i but could not reproduce the problem
>
> does sun's ksh88i enable some form of expansion on ! ?
>
For filename expansion, I think Solaris's ksh only uses !
when listing characters not to match, within brackets [ ... ], e.g.,
[!ab], which I don't think is relevant as far as a bad substitution error.
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