From:	michael AT weiser DOT saale-net DOT de (Michael Weiser)
Subject:	Re: bash pattern substitution
20 Sep 1998 22:33:33 -0700 :
Message-ID:	<360a43e0.8502596.cygnus.gnu-win32@mail.weiser.saale-net.de>
References:	<000501bde352$dd936610$68c718d1 AT pacific DOT nuance DOT com>
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To:	"Jeff Bergan" <jeff AT nuance DOT com>
Cc:	gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

Hello Jeff, you wrote:
>I was just trying to write a bash script in which I wanted to do a quick
>substitution in a variable, and it seems that bash has trouble with this.  I
>typed in an example from a book which works on unix:
>echo -e {PATH//:/'\n'}
You've forgotten a '$'. echo -e ${PATH//:/'\n'} should work.
-- 
bye, Michael
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