Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > | In your other mail you say > | I am not sure that the brace expansion stuff > | is really portable. (I am sure angus can help me > | with that :-) ) >> > | What are you talking about? I see no braces... > > One line below...: > > $${TMPCMD/$$PATTERN} > > I am not sure this is portable among the shells we should work with.
I've never seen it before and I can't find it described at http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xcu/chap2.html Shell Command Language Having said that, I couldn't find it in a quick `man bash` either... What does it mean? -- Angus