From bash-bug  Tue May 21 14:42:30 2002
From: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero () redhat ! de>
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 14:42:30 +0000
To: bash-bug
Subject: Negative offset with variable expansion doesn't work
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Reproduced with both 2.04 and 2.05:

var=12345
echo ${var:-2:2}

results in
12345

rather than
45

LLaP
bero

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