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List:       bash-bug
Subject:    Re: Negative offset with variable expansion doesn't work
From:       Andreas Schwab <schwab () suse ! de>
Date:       2002-05-21 15:22:10
Message-ID: jesn4lv84d.fsf () sykes ! suse ! de
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bero@redhat.de (Bernhard Rosenkraenzer) writes:

|> Reproduced with both 2.04 and 2.05:
|> 
|> var=12345
|> echo ${var:-2:2}

$ echo ${var: -2:2}

${var:-foo} means something different.

Andreas.

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