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Subject: Re: [BUG] any subtitution with @/*: ${@#str} or ${*#str} etc
From:   "Vladimir N. Oleynik" <dzo@simtreas.ru>
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Vladimir N. Oleynik пишет:

> $ echo "${*%b}"
> ab bb bc
> 
> but need:
> a b bc

Interesting moment: bash/ksh produde "a b bc" always, but zsh produce
more funny and like for me:

$ echo ${*%b}
a b bc

$ echo "${*%b}"
ab bb bc

$ echo "${*%c}"
ab bb b

but a knotty logic also:

$ echo "${*#a}"
ab bb bc

$ echo ${*#a}
b bb bc

ohhh

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vodz