2019-10-30 14:12:41 +0300, Oğuz:
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> I was expecting
>
> bash -c '${1##*"${1##*}"}' _ foo
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> to print an empty line too, but instead it prints foo.
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> Is this a bug?
Yes,
In gdb, we see the ${1##*} expands to \177 (CTLNUL) as a result
of quote_string(). And that's used as is in the outer pattern.
It looks like an "unquoting" may be missing in that case.
See also:
$ bash -c 'printf %s "${2%%"${1##*}"*}"' bash foo $'x\177foo' | hd
00000000 78 |x|
00000001
It seems it's a regression, introduced in 4.0.
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Stephane
