Bash - an odd problem using sed or awk or for

[John Horne]

On Thu, 2012-11-29 at 18:56 -0600, inode0 wrote:

> 
> Oh, for a simple variable this should work
> 
> echo "${XX/*
> 
> }"
> 
Hello,

Yes, that does seem to work :-)

Although I have to admit I'm not sure why! I'll investigate further :-)



Many thanks,

John.

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