Re: bash-3 incompatibility: quoting in pattern substitution of variables

[Stephane Chazelas]

On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 01:35:49PM +0200, koenig@science-computing.de wrote:
[...]
> how to I replace all '?' by ' ' in a shell variable
> in a _portable_ way which works both in bash-2 and bash-3 ???
[...]

pattern='\?'
echo "${variable//$pattern/replacement}"

Seems to work with both versions.

-- 
Stephane

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