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From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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Subject: sh(1) parameter expansion for substring processing not enabled
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>Number:         1127
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       sh(1) parameter expansion for substring processing not enabled
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    joerg
>State:          closed
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Apr  9 04:30:02 PDT 1996
>Closed-Date:    Sun Sep 1 05:42:01 PDT 1996
>Last-Modified:  Sun Sep  1 05:42:33 PDT 1996
>Originator:     Wolfram Schneider
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:

$ sh -c 'bla=/usr/src; echo ${bla##/usr/}'
Syntax error: Bad substitution
$ bash -c 'bla=/usr/src; echo ${bla##/usr/}'
src

>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:

The sh(1) from NetBSD has substring processing.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->joerg 
Responsible-Changed-By: joerg 
Responsible-Changed-When: Fri Apr 12 23:36:24 MET DST 1996 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
I'm goinmg to deal with sh(1) bugs some day. 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: peter 
State-Changed-When: Sun Sep 1 05:42:01 PDT 1996 
State-Changed-Why:  
Fixed after 4.4Lite2 sh code merge 
>Unformatted:

