On 2/28/12 12:05 PM, Steven W. Orr wrote: >> Look consider this >> test=teststring >> >> >> echo "${test//str/"dddd"}" > > This makes no sense.
It does when you consider that Posix says (still) that quotes inside the ${} must match and affect how the closing `}' is found. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/