Elia Pinto wrote: > The shell word splitting done in base is a bashism, iow not portable. No, ${varname##glob} is in POSIX and we already use it here and there. See Documentation/CodingGuidelines: - We use ${parameter#word} and its [#%] siblings, and their doubled "longest matching" form. Thanks for looking the patch over. Jonathan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html