On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 02:36:22AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
>
> It looks like bash is actually broken in POSIXLY_CORRECT mode, then:
>
> $ echo $BASH_VERSION
> 3.1.17(1)-release
> $ POSIXLY_CORRECT=1
> $ foo=bar}
> $ echo "${foo%'}'}"
> bar
>
> My interpretation of the correct behavior is that it should remove a
> single quote from the end of foo, and then print '} literally (that is,
> single quote and brace).
Well strictly speaking this is allowed by the standard as this usage
contains an odd number of single quotes inside an ${...} expression
enclosed by double quotes, which behaves in an implementation-specific
manner.
Cheers,
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