Bernd Eggink wrote:
prompt: CLUSTER='1 2'; echo ${CLUSTER/${HOSTNAME/.*}}
output: -bash: ${HOSTNAME: bad substitution
Apparently bash interprets this as ${parameter/pattern/string}
where pattern = ${HOSTNAME. Looks like a bug; it works in ksh.
That is, in fact, what is happening. I'm not sure you can call it
a bug, though -- bash is behaving exactly as documented. The fact
that Korn chose to implement it a certain way in ksh and not document
the implementation doesn't help compatibility, but the public
specification of the feature is the same between both shells.
Chet
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