02-01-2019
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Originally Posted by
bakunin
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/Addendum: only now i recognised a rather careless typo in my example above, which i have now corrected: instead of the correct ${NAMES/${EXCLUDE_NAME}/} (replace ${EXCLUDE_NAME} with nothing) i used ${NAMES//${EXCLUDE_NAME}} (replace nothing with ${EXCLUDE_NAME} ??), which is fo course wrong. You may want to try again with Solaris as, alas, my trusted old U05 seems not to work any more.
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I'm happy (or should I be sorry?) to be able to correct your humble self-correction: the original expression was
NOT wrong but corresponds to the second form quoted below.
man ksh:
Quote:
${parameter/pattern/string}
${parameter//pattern/string}
${parameter/#pattern/string}
${parameter/%pattern/string}
Expands parameter and replaces the longest match of pattern with the specified string. Each occurrence of \n in string is replaced by the portion of parameter that matches the nth sub-pattern.
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In the first form, only the first occurrence of pattern is replaced.
In the second form, each match for pattern is replaced by the specified string.
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