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Re: Bash parameter expansion (remove largest trailing match, remove largest leading match, pattern replacement) does not work

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  Re: Bash parameter expansion (remove largest trailing match, remove largest leading match, pattern replacement) does not work Bruce Lilly <bruce.lilly@gmail.com> - 2020-08-29 15:01 -0400

#16849 — Re: Bash parameter expansion (remove largest trailing match, remove largest leading match, pattern replacement) does not work

Thanks for the pointer to "shopt"; I'll check when I get a chance.

On Sat, Aug 29, 2020, 14:52 Koichi Murase <myoga.murase@gmail.com> wrote:

> 2020-08-29 23:47 Bruce Lilly <bruce.lilly@gmail.com>:
> > Description:
> >         Bash parameter expansion (remove largest trailing match,
> > remove largest leading match, pattern replacement) does not work
>
> In short, (1) ``octal escape \057'' doesn't have special meaning in
> Bash glob patterns.  `[\057]' means just one of a literal backslash or
> digits 0, 5, or 7.  (2) You need to set `shopt -s extglob` to use
> extended glob patterns like `+(...)' and `*(...)'.  Please look at the
> paragraph above the list of extended patterns in the manual.
>
> --
> Koichi
>

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