On Thu, 29 May 2003 23:26, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
x=QuousqueTandemAbutere
echo ${x##Quousque}
/bin/sh on solaris 8: bad substitution
Thank you, kind SunOS user.
In the meantime, for those who prefer the 'file -z' way, attached is
the same patch, changed so it does it the 'file -z |
On Thu, 29 May 2003 23:26, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
[ AC's quote from Debian 'man dash' deleted... ]
according to the unix history graph
(http://www.levenez.com/unix/history.html) this sentence must be at
least ten years old. ergo i would not bet on the accuracy of the rest
of the
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 02:10:53AM -0400, Alfie Costa wrote:
but why would BSD Debian bluff about POSIX?
because nobody bothered to update it? not that this would happen very
seldom with OSS ...
Eureka, [...]
That shell has the '##'. Therefore either Debian, BSD and HP are all
wrong
