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Re: Parameter expansion resulting empty treated as if it's not empty

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On 10/30/19 7:12 AM, Oğuz wrote:
> Since
> 
> bash -c '${1##*""}' _ foo
> 
> prints an empty line, I was expecting
> 
> bash -c '${1##*"${1##*}"}' _ foo
> 
> to print an empty line too, but instead it prints foo.

Thanks for the report. The shell doesn't handle the second quoted string
correctly. I'll fix it for the next devel branch push.

Chet

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Re: Parameter expansion resulting empty treated as if it's not empty Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> - 2019-10-30 18:45 -0400

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