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From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Subject: Re: Parameter substitution bug
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 20:49:17 +1000
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On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 09:36:07PM +0000, Mark Lentczner wrote:
> Strangely I ran across this issue in the real world: A doubly nested
> parameter substitution with an inner glob pattern (breath) fails /only
> when in double quotes/! That is, these two expressions produce
> different results:
> 
> ${f%${f#?}}   --vs--  "${f%${f#?}}"
> 
> Strangely, that is the simplest case I get to fail.
> 
> The following script walks through the issue, and if run with bash,
> ksh, or busybox exhibits those two expressions as producing the same
> result.

This should be fixed now.

Thanks,
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