Bill Gradwohl wrote: > On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 13:50 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> parameter=${parameter//[[:space:]]/} > I never saw that before. I checked my man bash for version bash-3.2-30 > from Fedora 10 and there is no mention of it. Thanks.
Look at the description of character classes in the Pattern Matching section. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/