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

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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

#15545 — Re: Parameter expansion resulting empty treated as if it's not empty

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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