Re: bash parameter expansion "doesn't like" dots?
On Tue, 5 Mar 2024 at 02:59, Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 05, 2024 at 11:24:11AM +0900, John Crawley wrote:
> > ^ worked as a negator in dash character classes up to Bullseye though, so something has changed recently. That's what my web searching failed to find...
>
> It looks like dash doesn't have up-to-date documentation on its changes.
> There's a ChangeLog file in the upstream Git repository's top level
> directory[1] (shipped as changelog.gz in the Debian package), but the most
> recent entry in it is dated 2014-11-17.
>
> We might *guess* that this change was made to make dash more strict
> about POSIX minimalism (removing extensions), but without documentation
> we can't do more than guess about motives.
>
> [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/dash/dash.git/tree/
A bit more info:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1028002
Previous discussion on debian-user:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2023/04/msg00559.html
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