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From: Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
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Subject: Re: Parameter Expansion: Case Modification: ${var~} not documented
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On 8/18/15 9:50 AM, Dan Douglas wrote:

>> Description:
>> The man page fails to document the ${var~} and ${var~~} case inversion
>> expansion.
>> It got the upper and lower, ie ${var^} and ${var,} but not invert.
>>
>> Fix:
>> More documentation.
> 
> I'm pretty sure that's intentional. The corresponding `declare -c` has never 
> been documented either.

Correct; it's undocumented.


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